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    8 months ago

    the ‘wyoming rule’, which would increase the size of house by decreasing the size of each house district in every state to the population of the smallest state’s single district–and by doing so, increase the number of electoral college votes accordingly… would not have affected any presidential election, except in some scenarios, 2000–which was ultimately decided by a republican-majority scotus. because when you add house seats to big ‘blue’ states, you also give them to big ‘red’ ones. you’d have to go straight popular vote instead…