Imagine a system where a candidate you support has a much higher chance of being elected to Congress, regardless of their party (especially if they belong to a minor party). The catch is that your representative might live a bit further from your house because of an increase in the size of a district. Would you take this trade? An election system called proportional ranked choice voting (proportional RCV) or single transferable vote gives voters an option to rank candidates running in an election to elect multiple representatives for a single district. This approach was proposed in 2025 by House Representative Donald S. Boyer as a part of the Fair Representation Act, which aims to reform elections for the US House of Representatives.
Trading off representation further from home for some semblance of representation at all.
This means that candidates are at-large and can't as easily meet their constituents as easily, at least in person, though in a heavily connected digital media space is this necessary any more?