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Old 07-21-2004, 07:59 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Wax_off
Then there's the issue of low population states being over represented by the electoral college. Each vote is equal to x number of voters. States like (I think) OK and SD that have fewer than x voters still get 1 electoral vote.

Don't know that it makes that much difference, but it's not 100% representitive.
that's a very good point.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/states.html

here they show the number of voters per electoral vote. California has the highest and then it basically goes down as population goes down. There's nearly 4 times as many voters for each californian electoral vote as there are for each wyoming electoral vote!
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