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If Senators' Vote Was the Number of People S/He Represented. [1]
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Date: 2022-08-27
I have long thought the way to make the United States Senate more representative was to count each Senator’s vote as the number of people living in their state. If the recent tie vote on President Biden’s bill that was changed to a Democratic win by Vice President Harris’s vote, had been counted as the number of people they represent the vote would have been:
Democratic votes Republican votes Democrats win by: 369,434,617 288,107,997 81,326,620 56.18 % 43.82 % 12.37 %
If Senate votes were counted this way, California’s senate vote would equal the current Senate vote of: Both senators from Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, West Virginia, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Iowa, Utah, Connecticut, and one of Oklahoma’s. The same number of people in California that happen to live in that long list of states get 43 Senators compared to California residents getting 2. In other words Californians get less than 5% as much vote in the United States Senate as the residents in the above list of states.
I don’t think Vice President Harris would have been upset by not getting to vote.
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