" representation "

 [ "proportional representation" ]

1: Just a side note: If you aren't familiar with the various electoral (voting) systems around the world, please do not read this as the wording may confuse you.

  * e.g.,  ... If a party wins 45% of the popular vote, it'd be entitled to 45% of the seats under the basic concept of proportional representation. 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

2: An electoral (i.e., voting) process in which full representation of all parties who have received votes is achieved by closely matching the percentage of party votes to the percentage of seats allocated in legislative assemblies.

  * e.g.,  ... Party-List PR is where you vote for a party (closed-list) or number candidates on a list (open-list). 

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3: There are 3 known ways of achieving proportional representation (PR) in electoral systems.

  * e.g.,  ... Additional-Member PR or Mixed-Member PR is where you get two votes, one for your electorate, the other for a party. 

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4:  Party-List PR: There's a list of pre-determined candidates (closed-list) or candidates that the voters can rank (open-list), along with some mathematical formula of allocating the seats (D'Hondt or Sainte-Lague). Countries which use Party-List PR include Israel (where the country is one closed-list constituency) and the Netherlands (open-list).

  * e.g.,  ... Single Transferable Vote is where you rank candidates and they have to achieve a quota based on votes and vacant seats in multi-member constituencies in order to be elected. 

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5:  Additional-Member System (AMS), Mixed-Member System (MMS): Two votes, one vote for a legislator (MP -- Member of Parliament -- in places like the UK and New Zealand) to represent a single-member constituency (under plurality voting), the other vote for a party (under party-list PR). In places like Germany, a certain number of seats are blockaded off for party-based legislators. Besides Germany, New Zealand uses this (along with calculating party-list seats via the Sainte-Lague method) for its House of Representatives.

  * e.g.,  ... The 1998 Jenkins Commission recommended Alternative Vote Top-Up as an alternative to the UK's current First-Past-The-Post (a.k.a. plurality winner, winner-take-all) voting system. 

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6:  Single Transferable Vote (STV) (in a multi-member constituency): Usually 3 to 6 candidates per constituency. Voters number their ballot according to their preferences. The first preferences are calculated first and candidates must achieve a quota (determined by the number of votes and the number of vacant seats) in order to be elected; if none of them meet the quota, the lowest-voted candidate gets eliminated and his/her 2nd preferences allocated to the next candidate, etc., until all the constituency seats are filled. Australia uses this to elect its Senate (upper house).

  * e.g.,  ... Political parties are less likely to achieve majorities in legislative assemblies under PR than they would under First-Past-the-Post plurality voting. 

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7: The 1998 Jenkins Commission in the UK also suggested a broadly-PR type of voting system called Alternative Vote Top-Up, a variant of Additional-Member/Mixed-Member where voters number their ballot according to preferences to determine an electorate MP in single-member constituencies (just like Australia's preferential voting for its House of Representatives). The other vote is a party vote, candidates on that list for each county.

  * e.g.,  ... A few political parties crying for PR include the UK's Liberal Democrats and Canada's NDP (New Democratic Party). (And another side note: Even Jello Biafra, when he was trying to become the U.S. Green Party's 2000 presidential candidate, wanted to convert the U.S. Congress from the current two-party FPTP system over to PR as he said in his speech to party faithful that year.) 

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8: A few notes on proportional representation:

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9:  Parties are less likely to gain majorities in legislative assemblies, very likely resulting in coalition governments.

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10:  Third parties, which are often disadvantaged under FPTP (first-past-the-post), often want PR so they can get more seats but not necessarily a majority. Examples being the UK's Liberal Democrats and Canada's NDP.

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11: For more on PR, just type "proportional representation voting" in your favorite search engine.

 [ "proper representation" ]

1: When a person of a particular race, gender or sexual orientation is depicted on TV or in the media as a human being instead of a joke.

  * e.g.,  ... Finally a show with proper representation! That one with the lesbian woman as a CEO? 

 [ "Taxation without Representation" ]

1: Friends with benefits, NSA sexual encounters

  * e.g.,  ... -Yo you smash that last night son? 

 [ "YACKATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" ]

1: When you get yacked by the Juice, and you don't know that you are being yacked, so you just go on as if nothing is going on....... Yackation Without Representation!!!!!!!

  * e.g.,  ... Last night I yacked this girl, she didn't even know I was yacking her, just kept talking and smiling at me!!!! Thats what I call" Yackation Without Representation " 

 [ "YACKATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" ]

1: To be yacked by the Juice, and not know you have been yacked, so you don't think anything of it!!!! Yackation Without Representation!!!!!!

  * e.g.,  ... Last night I yacked this girl and she didn't even know she was being yacked, she just kept talking and smiling at me, the whole time I was yacking her!!!!! Thats what I call Yackation Without Representation 

 [ "dingleton representation day" ]

1: the month of may I very good day for the dingleton

  * e.g.,  ... I just fucked a girl WOAHdingleton representation day 

 [ "Ginger representation day" ]

1: March 2nd

  * e.g.,  ... Oh yea today is ginger representation day, go show Kylee some love! 

 [ "Ginger representation day" ]

2: A day to show love to all your ginger friends.

 [ "Endoexoneuralafroeurasiancontenxtualizationary reinstatiatory complexionary reimbursementized photophalic representational translocationalemia antimultienlargementationalism" ]

1: A religion representing paying reparations to a complex (school of thought) that carries out the replacement of context regarding to Afroeurasia inside or outside the brain via the image of a penis, which location is being moved within the bloodstream, which opposes the enlargement of multiple items

  * e.g.,  ... Dave: I practice Endoexoneuralafroeurasiancontenxtualizationary reinstatiatory complexionary reimbursementized photophalic representational translocationalemia antimultienlargementationalism Darrell: what's that? Dave: I don't even really know, I just picked it up off the streets of New Budapestanbulstan 

 [ "Bandanas are the representation of video games (Doom) running on escherichia coli and flags (national) are the representation a homo-sapien (human) not playing it..." ]

1: What I call homo-sapiens addicted to abscesses.

  * e.g.,  ... Person 1: Are you addicted to abscesses? 

 [ "Representational Geometricism" ]

1: Representational Geometricism - An art and painting technique, developed and used by artist Erik Hesson, in which a scene is represented from a single perspective; using basic geometric forms, dynamic texture, and vibrant colors. This style is an attempt to create a balanced fusion of Geometric Abstraction and Realism; incorporating mathematical calculations and sacred geometry into the composition to achieve the desired aesthetics (See: Geometricism - a previous non-representational abstract style developed by Andruchak that introduced these core ideals). This new representational style was first introduced in 2017 by Erik Hesson, a resident artist of St. Petersburg, Fl.

  * e.g.,  ... "Wow! Representational Geometricism is truly an innovative art style... Erik Hesson has created a masterful art and painting technique." - Contemporary Artists Showcase for Dealers and Collectors