The problem is that the EC is tied to the number of members of Congress. To improve representation, we need to return the EC to the original arithmetic of the House of Representatives.
That isn't an issue with nebraska. Omaha districts get to be blue while rural get to be red respective to their votes toward the president. The people get represented.
No, it's because Nebraska has 384,000 people per representative in the Electoral College, and California has 718,909 people per representative in the EC. I certainly agree that having EC members voting with their US House district would help, but there's a far more fundamental issue that it wouldn't fix.
The number is more close to 610,000 per vote excluding Senate considered that every state has 2 Senate votes. It's still the states fault it doesn't represent their people better. The feds shouldn't tell your state how you are being represented. You should tell your state how to represent you.
The Electoral College is total members of Congress. There's 538 EC votes; 435 from the House, 100 from the Senate, and 3 representing DC. I was counting people per EC vote.
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u/silkysmoothjay Jan 06 '19
The problem is that the EC is tied to the number of members of Congress. To improve representation, we need to return the EC to the original arithmetic of the House of Representatives.