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That's a feature, not a bug. The system grants more weight to the voices of those who are thoughtful and contemplative in their selection than it does to lemmings. PewDiePie may have eleventy billion constituents, but he still only gets one vote.

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It definitely would be different because the focus would shift from the popular candidates who are clearly going to get in to the ones who are right at the cut off. Depending upon the spread, if a lot of candidates are at the 'barely enough' line, it would mean major swings in policy driven by a small population shift, as long as the general population doesn't shift as well.

I'm guessing the numbers won't be known until after the voting is done, meaning a lot of effort will be spent finding out where the line is at.

I kinda want to simulate it for a few elections to see what happens, but there isn't any sufficient simulation.

No, it's a bug. I liked your original idea, let's have that one plus a 10k constituents cap per representative as suggested in the other thread.

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