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Tommy, I'm kinda up in the air about the electoral college. I think a bigger hamper on the actual expression on the people's will in government is the freezing of the proportion of the House of Representatives in 1911. It no longer represents what it should Constitutionally...from wikipedia:
"Under Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states by population, as determined by the census conducted every ten years. Each state, however, is entitled to at least one Representative.
The only constitutional rule relating to the size of the House says: "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand."[2] Congress has regularly increased the size of the House to account for population growth; but Congress fixed the number of voting House members at 435 in 1911.[1] The number was temporarily increased to 437 in 1959 upon the admission of Alaska and Hawaii (seating one representative from each of those states without changing existing apportionment), and returned to 435 four years later, after the reapportionment consequent to the 1960 census."We need to expand the House of Representatives to reflect actual population and get actual representation again.
- Oh, and the politization of redistricting sucks too...TheBlueOne