Ranked Choice Voting, Minority Rule, and Maine's Second Congressional District
Click to enlargeby Gaius PubliusIn England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure.—James Madison, on why a Senate is needed to counterbalance the majoritarian HouseMinority rule occurs in a political system when a small group of citizens is able to force its will on the large group of which it is a part.