I think that, once the suggestion of replacing single member elections with anything approximating proportional representation is made, the focus on managing the electoral system we DO have is lost.<p>Tons of measures made by political scientists about gerrymandering implicitly value PR or nearly-PR as the standard of justice and fall into this trap. But I think there&#x27;s opportunity in the SMD systems for fairness, like the Gelman-King stuff that looks at equalizing the winners bonus provided to parties. That is, taken alone, it doesn&#x27;t matter if seats are awarded disproportionately to votes won, as long as the system responds in the same way when the tables are turned.