65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.

  • mob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Would there be any way to have everyone keep the same voting power while the population tripled?

    • orclev@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sure, you just define the problem differently. Instead of saying that there are X representatives in total, you just say there should be 1 representative for every 283K citizens. In this way the number of representatives naturally scales with the population.

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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        1 year ago

        This is basically what the Wyoming Rule does. It sets the ratio in the lowest population State, currently Wyoming, as the ratio for everywhere. Wyoming currently has 500,000 people and 1 Representative. That means the HoR would expand to something like 580 Seats.

        We could change the math, and the name, to the “1929 Rule” and set the ratio 280,000 to 1. I’m actually fine with an HoR that has 1,200 people in it but either way the Re-Apportionment Act of 1929 needs changed and the HoR needs expanded.

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      1 year ago

      Good point - it’s not about power because everyone else also gets that extra power up. It’s about equity.

      And we can achieve now that through fairness in redistricting.