Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College - eviltoast
  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Which would be replaced with “Can the Democrat win California by a large enough margin?”

    If it’s going to be fucked either way I’d rather at least have it be fucked in a way where every vote counts the same rather then a Wyoming vote being worth like 4 times a California vote owing to the house of representatives population being limited which means Californians aren’t being properly represented in the house.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      California is actually about middle of the pack for the House, currently. What skews the electoral college is that eveb the smallest states still get two Senators and a representative, and thus 3 electors.

      The states that are least represented in the House tend to be ones that have 1 or 2 Reps and are very close to getting one more. Like Delaware, Idaho or WV. All of which are over 895k people per Rep. Most states are somewhere in the 700s.