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Most American electoral districts operate on a winner-take-all basis, especially for congressional and state legislative elections. This system, known formally as single-member plurality (first-past-the-post), means that the candidate who receives the most votes in a district wins the seat, and all other votes are essentially disregarded in the final result.
Gerrymandering is to all intents and purposes the inevitable consequence of lacking a democratic system with proportional represe…

Prompt Commons: Collective Prompting as Governance for Urban AI
Rashid Mushkani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12415 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12415

Prompt Commons: Collective Prompting as Governance for Urban AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) are entering urban governance, yet their outputs are highly sensitive to prompts that carry value judgments. We propose Prompt Commons - a versioned, community-maintained repository of prompts with governance metadata, licensing, and moderation - to steer model behaviour toward pluralism. Using a Montreal dataset (443 human prompts; 3,317 after augmentation), we pilot three governance states (open, curated, veto-enabled). On a contested policy benchmark, a single-au…