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Introduction and summary

How electoral rules foster America’s current political dysfunction
1. Partisan primaries
2. First-past-the-post winners (also known as “winner take all”)
3. Single-member districts

Criteria for reforming the U.S. electoral system
A range of possible electoral reforms
Fusion voting
Ranked-choice voting
Nonpartisan, multicandidate primaries (in combination with RCV)
Multimember districts (in combination with RCV)
Open-list proportional representation (OLPR)
Other systems, including other forms of proportional representation
Conclusion: The road ahead
Acknowledgments