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by coldcode 2193 days ago
Likely it means that big cities would get all the reps and the rest of the state gets nothing.
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As that is where most of the people live, why is it wrong? Why does largely unpopulated land get a vote?
This. Why do voters living in rural areas get more weight to their votes? This is obviously more pronounced in the Senate, but clearly also a problem in the House.
A better route would be proportional representation. You vote for a party-ranked list of candidates, and the top n% of the list gets into office based on the fraction of the vote the party received. Unlike single-member plurality voting, this makes third parties viable.