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This means that if any state denies the right to vote to, e.g., 10% of its citizens, its number of representatives in the House of Representatives is reduced by 10%.

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So what happens when a state reports 110% of its citizens voted?
And if they reported the dead voted, can we shoot one of them?

2,115 posted on 12/14/2020 7:30:33 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)

You are confused. That section is not about who becomes president, it is about how many representatives each state gets. They get representatives in proportion to their population, that is what this section is about. However, if, in a federal election, they deny the vote to a portion of their citizens, then that state loses representatives in proportion to those denied the vote. This was so that, if southern states denied the vote to black citizens, they could not use those black citizens to increase their representation in Congress. The days of 3/5 of a person were over.

2,254 posted on 12/14/2020 10:00:36 PM PST by Defiant (If the Media and Social Media are going to run things, when do we get to vote for them?)