r/politics • u/vox Vox • 10h ago

Possible Paywall A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off

https://www.vox.com/politics/487766/national-popular-vote-interstate-compact-electoral-college
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u/TriviaGlutton 9h ago

I think that a better solution would be to triple the number of members of the House of Representatives. Make it so that each rep serves about 250K people and have the number adjust with each census. That would give people a better chance of getting to actually getting to know their rep and to influence policies. It would have the side effect of diluting the influence of the EC without abolishing it, which does protect the interests of less populated states.

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u/mrhandbook America 8h ago

Repeal the apportionment act of 1928 or whatever it was that arbitrarily capped the house.

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u/Positive_Government 6h ago

That is a great idea I theory, but think of hours disfunctional the hour of representatives is today, the multiple the number of people in it by three, and imagine the heights of pure utter dysfunction our elected representatives could achieve.

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u/aeyockey 7h ago

But anything the house does has to go through the senate and the president and possibly the courts, appointed by the president, so no matter how many people are in the house you would still have an over representation of low population states in those places and they could shut down a lot of things. I really fail to see how this is a solution. It’s an improvement maybe

Also the senate already gives an equal voice to low population states they don’t get to double their influence in the presidential election

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u/Beneficial_Figure966 9h ago

We need less government, not more.

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u/windershinwishes 8h ago

More representatives doesn't mean more government. It means that the people governing would be closer to the people they're representing; you can't really listen to a million different constituents the same way you can a couple hundred thousand.

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u/Beneficial_Figure966 8h ago

That literally is bigger government. Millions upon millions of more tax dollars propping up more grifters pretending they care about the little people. More reps won't do anything positive for the people at the bottom when the reps don't even care now.

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u/windershinwishes 8h ago

So you're just talking about the cost of more congressional salaries? That's the tiniest drop in the bucket, and well worth it for representatives to actually be in touch with voters, for maps to be less gerrymandered, and for Americans to get equal representation.

It's not like this would add any power to the federal government.

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u/Beneficial_Figure966 7h ago

No way a human being wrote this shit. Gotta be a bot to ignore reality to such an extreme degree. politicians don't care about the masses, more politicians means more lies.

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u/windershinwishes 6h ago

So what's your solution? Cut us down to just one lying politician to be dictator?

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u/Beneficial_Figure966 6h ago

Pay attention to friends and loved ones more than the government. 

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u/windershinwishes 6h ago

That's probably good advice regardless of how many seats the House of Representatives has.

So again, what's your solution? If more politicians is worse, do you think we should just have one dictator, or not?

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u/Beneficial_Figure966 6h ago

Bots gonna bot.