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Redcaps were the kids calling "Time Out!" right before you tagged them (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So each State can send as many reps to the House as they want?

I'm not sure how a larger population in a State translates into more Federal House seats for that State.

I assumed the whole number of seats allocated to each State in the House was set. But i've never really had reason to question that assumption.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    The total seats / number of districts is capped and set for each state. It should be uncapped but that is besides the point

    . The redistricting / gerymandering makes use of packing (putting as many X voting areas into a single district to give them less voting power by basically wasting their vote since their candidate wouldve won that distric anyways) and cracking (splitting X voting areas up into multiple districts which will be majority Y voting).

    This means that with even numbers of X and Y voting people, they can be partitioned so that 9/10 districts for example are 55-45 for Y, and the remaining X voting people can be packed into the last district. The end result is Y winning 90% of the districts with only 50% of the overall support.

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