

The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States

Daniel_Stuckey (UID: 2647775) writes | about a year ago

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Or ... (1)

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A nonymous Coward (UID: 7548) | 1 year,26 days


Or if you are set on changing state / district size, let border property parcels change state / district at each election; this can be up to the property owner alone, much the simplest method, or it could be by vote of ll residents, which might cause family troubles for single family houses, but would be more fair for apartment blocks.

UK tries to have 'equal populace' members. (1)

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eionmac (UID: 949755) | 1 year,26 days

UK constituencies are redrafted every so many years to try to keep members of Commons House of parliament with equal constituents. It causes many problems as each government tries to adjust boundaries to ensure a "safe seat" for its party . Latest proposals 2012 not accepted by house so next possible adjustment in 5 years time. The geopgraphy is not redone. The boundaries of the political constituencies are redrawn - they do not necessarilly align with shires or county sub divisions of the country. I see no reason why a US member of a house should be tied to a specific 'state' but to a 'nominal state' with overlaps or underlaps to secure equal numbers.

This won't fly. One simple alternative (1)

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macpacheco (UID: 1764378) | 1 year,25 days



Finally, states get a proportional number of Senators to their population versus the entire US population. An exponential scale to keep the largest states from having overwhelming power, but much more than the current equality between Wyoming and California for instance.
California, Texas, New York would have 5 or 6 senators, while WY, ND, SD, AK would have just one.
Perhaps throw in also per capta income, to help California and New York get a fair share of their economical output.
In some sense this might help increase California's federal budget allocation, since gets back less from the federal govt than it gives in federal taxes.

I don't believe this alternate would fly either, but at least it's a lot less radical.

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