Let’s pretend. Let’s fake that politics doesn’t matter, politicians don’t matter, story doesn’t matter, nostalgia doesn’t matter, tension doesn’t matter, robe doesn’t matter, intrigue doesn’t matter, influence doesn’t matter — all that matters is good aged rational, mathematical, look-at-the-numbers common sense.
And now let’s demeanour during a Electoral College.
We know what a problems are. Simply stated, by mathematician and associate Obie (Oberlin College, writer of peculiar ducks) Neil Freeman, some states have lots of electoral power. Some states frequency any.
The largest state is 66 times as populous as a smallest and has 18 times as many electoral votes. This allows for Electoral College formula that don’t compare a renouned vote.
Neil’s solution? Instead of expelling a Electoral College he wants to remodel it, with a elementary formula: Recut a American pie. Redivide America into 50 new units of equal population. Each new state will have roughly 6,175,000 inhabitants — that is a 2010 race divided by 50. Because he is also an artist, an civic planner and a nut, he has renamed his new units after plants, songs, cities and geological facilities in ways guaranteed to annoy flattering most everybody. Here’s his medium offer …
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Courtesy of Fake Is The New Real
On his blog Fake Is The New Real, he lists a “advantages†of his proposal:
Advantages
- Preserves a ancestral structure and duty of a Electoral College.
- Ends a over-representation of tiny states and under-representation of vast states in presidential voting and in a US Senate by expelling tiny and vast states.
- Political bounds some-more closely follow mercantile patterns, given many states are some-more centered on one or dual metro areas.
- Ends varying illustration in a House. Currently, a race of House districts ranges from 528,000 to 924,000. After this reform, any House chair would paint districts of a same size. (Since a stream distance of a House isn’t divisible by 50, a numbers of seats should be increasing to 450 or 500.)
- States could be redistricted after any census — only like House seats are distributed now.
… and then, since he has to, he really quickly lists a disadvantages, to that we have combined one of my possess …
Disadvantages
- Some county names are repetitious in new states.
- Some internal governments would knowledge a change in state laws and procedures.
- [Editor’s Addition] This will never happen.
In integrity to Neil, he categorically says: “Keep in mind that this is an art project, not a serious proposal, so take it easy with a emails about a dedicated dirt of Texas.†So don’t diatribe to him. Save your rants for me. we am built like an Internet armadillo; we am rant-friendly. Neil, by a way, has been published in a Believer, Black Book and a Next American City, and his work has seemed in exhibitions in Chicago, London, New York and Cambridge, Mass. (Or “Casco,†as he would call it.)
