electoral math

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 10 09:44:18 PST 2000


[from today's release from the Institute for Public Accuracy]

ROBERT NAIMAN, (202) 293-5380 ext 212, (202) 265-1776, naiman at cepr.net, http://www.egroups.com/message/naiman-columns/49, http://www.cepr.net Senior analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Naiman said today: "Under the Electoral College, voters in small states have more say than people in big states. In Wyoming one vote in the Electoral College corresponds to 69,000 voters; in California, one electoral vote corresponds to 180,000 voters. If each state had only as many electors as it had members in the House of Representatives and Bush won Oregon and Florida, Bush would have 216 and Gore would have 220 electoral votes."



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