RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 5, 2013 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2013 at 8:23 am by Tiberius.)
(January 5, 2013 at 12:45 pm)A Theist Wrote: ...that would definitely strip the electoral power away from the big states like New York, California, and Texas to make the governing process more fair to everyone else in the nation.Those states actually hold very little electoral power, due to the fact that votes in the electoral college are unevenly distributed. Votes are supposed to reflect the population of the state. With the total population of the US being ~315,000,000, and the number of electoral college votes being set to 538, each vote is representative of ~585,500 people.
However, the electoral college also stipulates that every state gets 3 votes to start with. That meant that states with very low populations (i.e. Wyoming with its 576,412 people) have two more votes than they should have. Consequently, larger states have less votes than they should have. California has 55 electoral college votes. With its population of 38,041,430, it should actually have 65.
