five single-districts

Someone sent me an e-mail that referred to an argument often used against the current five-member County Commission, where each member is elected only by the voters of their district, and in favor of the planned expansion that will add to new members to the BCC, each of whom will be elected by voters from the entire county.

The e-mail cited arguments that make claims I've been referring to as the Single-Member Representation Myth.

Supporters of at-large elections say County Commissioners who are elected only by their district voters won't be concerned with issues facing Clay County residents who can't vote for them. That because they are elected only by the residents of their individual district, they have morphed into being only District Commissioners, not County Commissioners. That their duties and fields of concern have been cut to one-fifth of what they were when they were elected at-large.