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To: doug from upland

Pennsylvania has a population itself greater than the population of the entire country when the Electoral College was created. Pennsylvania suffers from the same unfair malady that the Electoral College corrected for all of the States.

Perhaps Pennsylvania should adopt a County level version of the Electoral College so the counties with the largest populations do not dominate Federal elections.

As it is the Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg areas with large populations bully the other counties. Large, densely populated areas are characterized by high crime rates, drug use, and populations dependent upon leftist Democrats who keep the freebies coming. The rest of the State is forced to pay for the freebies.


2 posted on 10/24/2020 3:24:51 PM PDT by olezip
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To: olezip
Perhaps Pennsylvania should adopt a County level version of the Electoral College
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Electoral votes should be allotted per the outcome of each Congressional District. So if a large urban area got out 110% of their possible vote, they would still be allotted one electoral vote, rather than in the current situation where their total vote count is added to the state count, resulting in a winner take all, statewide winner.

Each electoral vote would represent the wishes of the members of each Congressional District (winner of the vote in the Congressional district), rather than being awarded to the winner of the total statewide vote, where large urban areas can "get out the vote, by hook, crook, or other nefarious means.

Example: Miami/Dade could only generate the number of electoral votes from their district, not pick up those belonging to the large red areas of the state, by swamping the statewide count with illegal votes (see previous irregularities).

18 posted on 10/24/2020 4:33:51 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: olezip
Perhaps Pennsylvania should adopt a County level version of the Electoral College so the counties with the largest populations do not dominate Federal elections.

All State-level voting districts (basically Reps' districts) should be condensed and reformed. Base them on being as geographically compact as possible, and sized to place equal weight between land area and population size. This still gives high-density cities a larger share of the voting power, but should leave sufficient voting power in the rural areas to not allow a single large city (or a couple big cities) to determine the vote outcome for the entire State by themselves.
39 posted on 10/25/2020 9:29:53 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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