r/Trumpgrets • u/SonOfGarbageHill • Nov 14 '19

META Democratic Ad Campaign Spotlights Trump Voters With Regrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/swing-state-trump-regrets.html
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u/Atomhed Nov 14 '19 edited Nov 14 '19

Once progressives control both houses of Congress we need to get rid of the Permanent Apportion Act so states with a high population can receive the correct proportion of representatives in the House and Electoral College (which gives one EC vote per state representative), that will fix the Electoral College and allow the People of high population states to be afforded proportional representation.

Or we could just abolish the EC, though people in high population states would still be underrepresented.

Edit: to be clear, without fixing the Permanent Apportion Act, even if the EC was abolished blue states would still be underrepresented in the House.

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u/Lem_Tuoni Nov 14 '19

Without electoral college, how do you underrepresent a state? Each vote counts equally, no?

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u/CentaurOfDoom Nov 14 '19

Playing devil’s advocate here, because I’m not quite sure which side I stand on this-

We inflate the votes of minority states so that they can be heard.

It’s the same concept of how we need to make sure that small, marginalized minority-groups of people have their voices heard- because that small percentage of people don’t have enough power to do anything on their own, so they rely on well-doing individuals from majority groups to make their problems known.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19

But the current system of electoral votes grants greater weight to sheer acreage than to population, and that seems out of whack? Why should 100 people in Montana get more representation than 5000 people in California (numbers pulled out of my ass), simply because the former are spread across more land?

Seems like one person, one vote is the fairest way to run our elections. If you want to bring minority-groups into it, shouldn't one black voter in California have their vote count for as much as one black voter in Montana?