[EM] 2000 Electoral College Minority Rule Math
2000 Electoral College Minority Rule Math --- or how an elitist ANTI- Democracy 3rd grade system from 1787 lingers on and on (regardless of the 1860 election and the resulting horrific 1861-1865 Civil War). PV - 2000 President Votes, EV Electoral College Votes (= Number of U.S.A. Rep. seats plus 2 (Senators) per State -- D.C. special 23rd Amdt), C Cumulative PV/EV is low to high PV/EV EV CEV DC 67298 3 3 WY 71242 3 6 HI 91988 4 10 AK 95187 3 13 ND 96085 3 16 VT 98103 3 19 RI 102278 4 23 SD 105423 3 26 DE 109176 3 29 NM 119721 5 34 ID 125404 4 38 WV 129625 5 43 MT 136995 3 46 NE 139404 5 51 MS 142026 7 58 NH 142270 4 62 NV 152356 4 66 AR 153630 6 72 UT 154151 5 77 OK 154279 8 85 ME 162954 4 89 SC 172988 8 97 KS 178703 6 103 CT 182441 8 111 IN 183275 12 123 AL 185141 9 132 TN 188744 11 143 AZ 191502 8 151 KY 193013 8 159 IA 193289 7 166 LA 196184 9 175 below average PV/EV GA 198708 13 188 above average PV/EV TX 200239 32 220 MD 202521 10 230 CA 203071 54 284 270 EV needed for President election. NC 208214 14 298 VA 210727 13 311 NY 210916 33 344 NJ 212482 15 359 PA 213573 23 382 MO 214536 11 393 IL 215550 22 415 CO 217671 8 423 OR 219136 7 430 OH 223905 21 451 WA 226130 11 462 MA 227834 12 474 MI 235139 18 492 WI 236237 11 503 FL 238524 25 528 MN 243868 10 538 USA 196271 538 MN/DC = 243868/67298 = 3.62 Thus the voters in the smaller States have above average power in electing Presidents (like their control of the U.S.A. Senate). Somewhat different math in 2004 with revised 435 U.S.A. Rep. seats among the States (plus 100 EV for 50 States plus 3 EV for DC). Outrage in defense of 1 person-1 vote Democracy ??? -- missing in action buried in apathy (especially in the indirect minority rule U.S.A. Congress). Foreign folks look on in amazement/shock/fear about each election. Which future President election may produce 1860 type political timebomb results ???
Re: [EM] 2000 Electoral College Minority Rule Math
Which future President election may produce 1860 type political timebomb results ??? Well, if any election *should have* produced an explosion of outrage, it was 2000, right? That was when the minority-victory scenario actually played out. And of course there was such an outrage, but it was mostly directed at the specific results (demanding recounts in Florida, looking at the poorly designed ballots, etc) as oppose to the fundamental problems. Hillary Clinton talked about abolishing the Electoral College a few weeks later, but that's the last I head of that. The movement has lost momentum, and it's a shame. The easy group to blame is the media. It's also easy to lose focus on any one reform when you look at the 2000 election, since ANY reasonable reform (and some unreasonable reforms like IRV) would have caused the election to swing the other way. The one thing that the 1860 election had that the 2000 election lacked was an explosive issue that broke on regional lines. Bush may have lost the popular vote, but at least he broke 40% in every region of the country. While the Electoral College distorted and watered down the power of many people's votes in 2000, it didn't blatantly disenfranchise an entire region like the 1860 vote did. - Adam Tarr
