• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Increasing the number of congressional districts would also necessitate increasing the number of votes needed to win.

    Right now, each state has 1 per Congressman and 1 for each of 2 Senators.

    538 total with 270 needed to win (50.18%).

    So if you add house members, let’s say we do something crazy and double it for everyone:

    976 electoral college votes (538-100 because the Senate votes are fixed. 438*2 then add the 100 Senators back in).

    Now you need 488 to become President. The problem remains, all you did is change the scale.