TomC
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Please explain how this is so. Electoral votes are apportioned by population and based on the latest census. If that is so how can a Wyoming voter have more voting power than a voter in California?There's also the fact that small states have much greater EC voting power than big ones. A vote in Wyoming is worth almost four in California.
Nothing I read about how Electoral Votes are apportioned - by population - says anything about the U.S. Senate. Are you saying that each state has two additional electoral votes that are not based on population? How could I not have read that somewhere?Here is a super simplified example. Let's say that the US has three states with these populations and Congressional delegations:
Note that the number of electors each state has is the sum of the numbers of that state's Reps and Senators.
- Oceania -- population 20M -- House 4 -- Senate 2 -- EC 6
- Flatland -- population 10M -- House 2 -- Senate 2 -- EC 4
- Montana -- population 5M -- House 1 -- Senate 2 -- EC 3
Oceania votes for Team Blue and Flatland and Montana for Team Red.
- Popular Vote: Blue 20M, Red 15M
- Electoral Vote: Blue 6, Red 7
EC votes are not apportioned by population.
Tom
ETA ~Nationalpopularvote.com has information on all this. You might check it out.~