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US electoral college reform - a modest proposal from some random bod on the internet

Saw this earlier, and thought I'd take it to a narrower audience:

The idea is that each electoral college vote would represent more equal population, plus it makes for an interesting map and provides some head-scraching names.  More at the author's site.

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Blogger James Dowden said... 4:34 pm

Yes, some of the names are actually quite educational. For instance, Sabine for Louisiana and a bit of Texas made me initially think of the historic people who lived north-east of Rome, but it appears in fact to be a river of some cultural importance.  



Blogger Croydonian said... 4:43 pm

As a sad old blues nut, I rather approve of an area called The Delta, although it excludes the lower half of that region, as classically defined.

And lucky old Missouri for surviving the re-drawing.  



Blogger Old BE said... 6:08 pm

It's rather a napoleonic concept, though, redrawing maps for administrative convenience and to remove historical boundaries...  



Blogger All Seeing Eye said... 2:22 am

I actually came across this site a few days ago too...via a link from a link...and considered doing this very same post as it struck me as quite interesting.

Then I saw some of his other posts - outlines of all nuclear states scaled to the same size, lines between Staten Island schools in number order etc and decided he was certifiable.

That's when I tiptoed away from his site hoping that my shadow hadn't left a mark in his logfiles. I'm glad that someone had the courage to link back to him, and I'm glad it wasn't me!  



Blogger Newmania said... 10:56 pm

Here is a thing the largest Town on Montana is Butte ( population 33,892)
More wilderness in the US than in Africa too ,

Its big ...I think thats what I `m saying ..and empty.

I`ll get my coat  



Anonymous CC Truckston said... 2:36 pm

The effect of the "more likely reform" described by Anonymous is to further erode whatever power (not much) is left to the states. A much better idea is adhere to the 10th amendment to the Constitution and reign in the power of the central government. The founding fathers envisioned state sovereignty within a federal system for several reasons, chief among them was to protect the liberty of Americans. We would do well to retain our electoral system and even return to the system of having state legislatures elect US Senators to give the states greater power and representation in the central government.  



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