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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by squokko on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:54AM (#33516576)
This was how the US Constitution was designed by the smart people, before various idiots screwed it up with the 17th Amendment and Permanent Apportionment Act. Your US representative was supposed to represent about ~30,000 people and your state representatives even fewer than that. Now each representative represents close to a million.
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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by kylebyproxy on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:44AM (#33517553)
So glad to see others calling-out the Permanent Apportionment Act. Maybe it made sense in a world without communications technology, but today we're able to scale to the numbers needed to support that ratio of representatives:constituents.
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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by hawkesnest on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:00AM (#33518983)
Would the House be more or less effective if there were 10,000+ representatives to meet the 30,000:1 ratio in the original Constitutional setup?
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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by squokko on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:08PM (#33521365)
More, because the House is not a deliberative body. Reps could stay in their districts and just vote online.
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