Proportional Voting in the US

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BEALE, LEWIS. "A Vote for Change: Some Insiders Say Proportional Representation Could Lead Us Out of Legislative Gridlock." Los Angeles Times, Sunday, November 8, 1992, E2.

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COSSOLOTTO, MATTHEW. "A Jump Start for American Democracy: Proportional Representation Would Offer Us True Political Choices." Utne Reader, November/December 1992, p. 22.

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ENGSTROM, RICHARD, DELBERT A. TAEBEL, and RICHARD COLE. "Cumulative Voting as a Remedy for Minority Vote Dilution: The Case of Alamogordo, New Mexico." Journal of Law and Politics 5 (1989): 469-97.

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GUINIER, LANI. "Don't Scapegoat the Gerrymander," The New York Times Magazine, January 8, 1995, 36-37.

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LONOWSKI, DELMER. "A Return to Tradition: Proportional Representation in Tribal Government." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 18, no. 1 (1994): 147-163.

LOW-BEER, JOHN R. "The Constitutional Imperative for Proportional Representation." Yale Law Journal 94, no. 1 (November 1984): 163-88.

MACKLIN, PHILIP A. "Election Systems and their Consequences." Oxford, Ohio: Physics Department, Miami University, 1989. Photocopy.

MEYER, GERALD. "Proportional Representation and the Left: The Urgency of Real Reform." Against the Current. Sept.-Oct. 1996: 14-18.

MORTIMER, LEE, "Proportional Voting Plan Would Safeguard Fairness and Diversity." Durham, N.C., Herald-Sun, February 16, 1992, editorial page.

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