Brutal New Poll Shows Trump Losing Big to Biden, Even With Third Party Spoiler - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    The Electoral College did give the slave states more power, by way of the three-fifths compromise: the number of Electors depends on the number of Representatives, which depends on the census of inhabitants, not vote-eligible citizens, including, at the time, 3/5 of the slave population. So a state like Virginia, with more slaves than free people, got a boost compared to a state with only free residents.