On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:07:15 -0400, John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 06:48 PM 10/11/2004 -0400 Bryon Daly wrote: > >And of course if all the states did this, then it wouldn't be a > >disadvantage to anyone. > > No, it would disproportionately benefit the largest States. For example, > 1/52nd of the vote in California would move one Electoral Vote - or about > 2%. You would need to move 1/9th of the vote, about 11%, in Colorado to > similarly pick up an Electoral Vote. In Alaska, that would be 1/3rd. > It would clearly be much more profitable to campaign in California than in > smaller States under such circumstances.
But 1/52 of CA's registered voters (using year 2000 figures from here: http://www.fec.gov/pages/2000turnout/reg&to00.htm ) is 300K voters. 1/9 of CO's registered voters is 250K voters, and 1/3 of AK's registered voters is 158K voters. So smaller states would require less voters to be convinced in order to shift one EV. I don't think I'd call that disproportionally benefitting the large states. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
