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2004.10.21 - Thirty thousand
Thanks to Andro for finding...
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/pages/Neubauer-Zeitlin.htm
This paper, and the site that hosts it, basically assume...
(1) The President should be elected by a popular vote.
(2) The number of people per Representative should not exceed
some bound.
...and conclude that both assumptions would be realized by
sending 10,000 Representatives to Congress.
The Electoral College discussion and the analysis of the 2000
election are superfluous; if (1) holds we don't need an EC at
all.
But then, (1) is a rather ambitious assumption that is clearly
not in keeping with the Framers' intentions, which provide
representation both for citizens and the quasi-sovereign States.
Meanwhile, (2) is an incredibly stupid idea, since parliamentary
procedure as we know it barely functions with 500 participants.
Far better to redress the representation bandwidth issue at a
local level. This assumes local government is better than broad
government, which only a dumbass would disagree with.
As far as federal government as we know it is necessary, I favor
representation for both individual citizens and quasi-sovereign
sub-governments. In this view, adding Representatives and
Senators to get EC seats is wrong -- the Senate and House are
given roughly equal power by the Constitution. This leads to
1 + 50/x electoral votes for each State, where x is the fraction
of the US population living in that State. The whole vote could
be determined in any way the State sees fit, and the fractional
vote by a (hopefully GPL) standardized nationwide voting process.
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