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To: LikeLight

How can PA have 199 congressional districts?


38 posted on 05/20/2010 11:45:34 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
How can PA have 199 congressional districts?

It's the PA State Legislature. 203 districts. They roughly doubled it in 1873, on the theory that a bigger group of legislators would be harder to bribe. No lie.

48 posted on 05/20/2010 12:03:16 PM PDT by LikeLight (Bloom for the 199th www.StephenLBloom.com)
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