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Re:World reaction to long queues of voters in US by aww_dang on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:33PM (#24778540)
>A Wyoming voter has vastly more power then a Californian voter in every federal election. When the Founders set up the Senate, Virginia was something like 15x more populous then the least populist state. California is 66x more populous then Wyoming today.

Which is why CA has 53 congressional representatives and WY only has one.

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Re:World reaction to long queues of voters in US by godtoldmetodoit on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:50PM (#24778750)
You are missing the point. There is a set amount of Representatives (435), and the smallest district by population is Wyoming's at 577,000. In California the average district population is more like 745,000. That gives a Wyoming voter a disproportionate amount of power, and obviously Wyoming and California are just the two clearest examples, this concept plays out over the entire country.

So even in the House which is supposed to be most representative of the majority - the minority has a significant advantage.

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