>> From: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Interesting use of Borda count
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > D- The smallest States each have 3 Electoral College votes (minimum 1 U.S. >> > Rep seat plus 2 U.S. Senate seats-- U.S.A. Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 1) >> > ---- even if some disaster were to reduce the State's population down to 1 >> > voter. >> > >> > Thus the voters/ ECV ratios are much higher for many small States than in >> > larger States (such as California). >> > >> True, but that doesn't make up for the fact that the >> voters in the larger states are in larger blocks, and the >> larger states do vote as blocks in the EC. >> So in actual practice the average voters in the smaller >> states have about one third of the voting power of the >> average voters in the larger states. >> See the discussion of this result at the URL >> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~livingst/Banzhaf/#results Hmmm, I'm a bit short on time presently, so I haven't worked this out, but it would seem that by the same criteria, when states are considered individual voters in the EC, that smaller states have more power, per voter, than larger states. This at the same time that individuals in the small states have less power than their counterparts in large states. Of course, while this might be peculiar, there's nothing about it that requires that the power of a state be the sum of the power of the individual voters.
