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In reply to the discussion: Kobach expert witness: Carlos Murguia sounds foreign. ACLU attorney: Thats a federal judge [View all]Sophia4
(3,515 posts)for Californians. We 39 million people. And a number of states are less than one million.
Fact is, they get far more electors per voter than we do.
The problem is not how California's votes are divided up.
The problem is that because we only have two senators for our 39 million people, and states like Wyoming, Montana and Vermont to name only three of them, have fewer than one million people and two senators, the overall number of electors from our state versus less populous states is a big, big problem, a big, big source of inequity and voter repression.
So their idea of changing winner take all will not help voters in populous states. And note that the less populous states including, for example, Alaska tend to be very conservative. Think of the Dakotas that have low populations and are conservative.
So Bowie' approach fails when it comes to making Californians' votes for president count anywhere near as much as those of votes in many other states.