Thanks for the link.
I think one big problem is really the limit on the size of the House of Representatives. When the current cap was set (1910), the number of constituents per district was around 200,000. Today, the average is approaching four times that. But not only does this dilute one's vote and diminish representation in Congress, it also bears on apportionment of presidential electors, as this is based upon the sizes of states' congressional delegations.
It's not likely to happen that the cap should be adjusted to match at least the level of representation in 1910, but it does seem at least a little more plausible than most of these (very interesting) scenarios -- even if it would mean ratcheting up the number of Representatives about three-fold or more.
In any case, the apportionment process seems sufficiently obscure so as to pretty effectively conceal just how disparate voting power is among constituents in different U.S. locales.
I'm not a political geographer, so if anybody knows of literature in the discipline that speaks to these questions, I'd be happy to hear your recommendations.
Cheers,
R.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 07:04:31PM +0000, simone tulumello wrote:
> Hi Critters,
> this article on Places Journal is a sharp comment on the US electoral
> college (and a collection of pretty interesting maps):
> https://placesjournal.org/article/what-if-america-electoral-college-maps/#footnote_2
> .
> Bests
> S.
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