With apologies to my learned readers, allow me to present some facts and statisitics of which you may not be aware.
There are three basis votes which we can cast for offices in the Federal Govt.
1) House of representatives .(435 members, a fixed number which may never be altered)
2)Senate ( 100 members, 2 per state )
3)Presidant ( Not as many suppose a direct vote but a vote to select electors)
1) The House is about as close as we can get to a democratic selection. About 600,000 per population per representative. There are 8 smaller states which ekect only one representative and 5 states which select only 2 reps. California elects 53 reps. The top 10 states elect as many
as the smaller 40.
It gets stranger.
To be continued
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I was curious about the history on the number of seats in the house of representatives. I found the following on Wikipedia:
"Public Law 62-5, passed by the United States Congress on August 8, 1911, set the number of members of the United States House of Representatives at 435 effective with the 63rd Congress in 1913. It also included a provision for the addition of one seat each for Arizona and New Mexico when they became states. The number of members increased temporarily to 437 when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states during the 87th Congress, but the 1960 census reduced the number to 435"
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