Totally not an ominous or fucked up to say when blue states are absolutely recoiling in horror at the fucking disgrace of a president he is /s

  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    If your state isn’t green, call your state representative (bonus: the one more likely to give a shit)

    It’s not likely to happen, in no small part because Florida and Texas are a majority of the “pending” votes and it’s unlikely to pass in either. Most of the states where it isn’t pending are smaller states who benefit or at least aren’t meaningfully hurt by the EC.

    House apportionment hurts states with 1 Rep who are just shy of getting a second the most, and after them hurts California essentially because it blows the curve on population. At the same time, it’s the best you can manage with a fixed size House - any other apportionment with the same number of House members will on average have a worse disparity in representation. You’d have to uncap the House or at least significantly increase the size of the House to get a better result.

    Of course there’s nothing these days that prevents Congressional business from being conducted by teleconference, which would reduce one of the core issues with an uncapped House - the physical and practical difficulties in actually running it. For example, if you were to decide that Wyoming as the smallest state got one rep and every other state got a rep per population of Wyoming then we’d have something like 5780 Representatives.