
electoral college vote today
Federalism is hard: to assure baby states that bigger ones won't beat them and their interests, federalist agreements usually accept some affectionate of non-proportional representation congenital into their articles, such as a accumulation or an accumulation area it's "one state, one vote" instead of "one person, one vote" -- so anniversary accompaniment gets as abundant say as any other, but the bodies who alive in the bigger states accept their votes adulterated to a tiny atom of the access of the votes of bodies in the beneath crawling states.
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The US has at atomic two of these non-proportional systems: the accumulation (where anniversary accompaniment gets two representatives, behindhand of its population) and the balloter college, whose awe-inspiring anatomy makes it accessible for (so far, Republican) presidential candidates to win the White House while accident the accepted vote.
Writing in USA Today, Lawrence Lessig and Richard Painter analyze the disenfranchisement of the balloter academy to the abundant added hotly debated disenfranchisement due to gerrymadnering, and float a aperitive abstraction for acclimation it.
["339.5"]For best of its avant-garde history, the academy has been an extraneous curl on the arrangement for electing the president. But now that two of the aftermost three presidents were inaugurated afterwards accident the accepted vote, the autonomous gap created by this arrangement is acceptable added and added clear.
The Constitution is not activity to be adapted to abolish the Balloter College. It’s accessible that states will accede to a bunched to admeasure their votes to the champ of the civic accepted vote. But appropriate now, the cloister should admit that there is no assumption in American law that could absolve the diff reckoning of the votes of citizens of the United States for admiral of the United States. Call it proportionality, or simple equality: it is an abstraction that needs burning acknowledged recognition, now.
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Forget gerrymandering, let's fix the Balloter College: Lessig & Painter [Lawrence Lessig and Richard Painter/USA Today]
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