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To: HostileTerritory
There's also nothing to stop states from subdividing counties like mad to prop up their totals.

No, but there is something to keep states from subdividing their congressional districts -- the Constitution. Any system that apportions the electoral votes would have to be based either on (a) the congressional districts since electoral votes = number of congressional districts plus 2; or (b) percentage of popular vote in the state. In either case, based on recent election trends, republican candidates would syphon off more electoral votes from blue states than dems would from red states.

107 posted on 12/02/2004 10:26:17 AM PST by VRWCmember ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Eccl. 10:2)
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To: VRWCmember

Well, in that post I was responding to one particularly out-there suggestion to apportion them by county.


112 posted on 12/02/2004 11:40:11 AM PST by HostileTerritory
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