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    10 months ago

    That, paradoxically, increases California’s proportional voting power. Popular vote doesn’t decide elections.

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      10 months ago

      If California had 70million citizens, current district sizes are around 700k. So it would have about 100 districts. It would have about 1/5th of the total electoral college vote.

      It’s honestly insane that New York and Cali have purposefully handed over political power to republicans since the 60s.

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        As I understand it, because every state still has to have at least 1 House member (and thus 1 electoral college vote). Without increasing the size of the House then all that can do is reduce the proportional power of each vote within California. The State itself becomes more powerful, sure, but the votes of citizens within California are worth less and less as the population grows. It’s a really bad system.

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          Each district is roughly 700k people. A few districts are bigger, a few are smaller.

          California could completely dominate the US House of Representatives and the electoral college.

          A state becomes more powerful by having more people.

          California has much much more power than Wyoming, even tho each voter in Wyoming might have a tiny bit more power than each voter in Cali.

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            Yeah, but it’s not just Wyoming. It’s all the little flyover states all teaming up against big bad California, and using their disproportionate electoral power to do so - it’s the reason we’ve had multiple presidents that lost the electoral college, after all.

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              Yeah sure they can get 20 extra electoral college votes combined, but California would have 20-30 more itself. California just handed these over to republicans by refusing to build housing for 60 years.

              New York has done the same.

              We’ve just handed tons of political power over Republicans, who already have a natural advantage.