According to Election Data Services, preliminary 2010 census data suggests that 18 states will either gain or lose U.S. House seats in 2011.
The eight states that will gain are: Texas (4), Florida (2), and one each for Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. The ten states that will lose are: New York (2), Ohio (2), and one each for Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Thanks to Sam Harley for this information.
I guess Katrina really did hurt Louisiana. I wonder how close Montana was to getting a 2nd district?
See:
Loeber v Spargo 08-4323 USCA2C pending rehearing petition
and see also:
Forjone v CA 10-822 USCA2C pending briefing sked
and see also:
Strunk V US-DOC USCA-DCC pending appellant brief
And also see congressional redistricting related to federal and state constitutional issues including BO/NBC eligibility — if DNC/GOP national committees go down on this POTUS/CINC eligibility and US citizenship reapportionment matter, the world really changes
see today’s latest court entry in USDC-DC 08-2234 Strunk v DOS/DHS FOIA of SAD (Dunham) travel/ passport documentation DOJ states was destroyed by someone somewhere without destruction records or reasonable authority or paper / microfiche database index search.
MINUTE ORDER granting 43 Motion for Leave to File Surreply. It is hereby ORDERED that the motion is GRANTED. Signed by Judge Richard J. Leon on 9/28/10. (lcrjl2) (Entered: 09/28/2010)
It is not the redistricting, it is whom designs the redistricting.
Nationally, or state by state, undoing the dumbest school on the planet, the Electoral Collage, any one?
Obvious rough estimate of gerrymander seats =
435 x State Population / Population of 50 States.
Sorry — D.C. AIN’T a State — see 23rd Amdt.
Actual math — Method of Equal Proportions — love those square roots.
Donald,
The Electoral College is a pillar of our Republic – a brilliant plan to ensure that residents of just a few heavily populated cities don’t control the entire election.
We all need to keep in mind that the President is not the president of the people, but rather the president of the States united. He is the governor of governors.
Electoral College reforms needed:
1) Other 48 states to follow the lead of Maine and Nebraska and go with a district system of electing their Electoral voters.
2) With #1 accomplished, voters in each congressional district will be selecting only three (3) members of the EC: their congressional Electoral Collegiate and two at-large statewide members.
3) With #1 and #2 in place, it is now feasible to place the actual names of Electoral College niominees on the ballot. Each political party or independent presidential candidate will have only three names per congressional district. This results in likely no more than eighteen names on the ballot.
4) To simplify #3 and encorage a more informed electorate, eliminate printing political affiliations with these Electors.
The Electoral College is one of the 3 EVIL and CORRUPT ANTI-Democracy (i.e. OLIGARCHY) minority rule gerrymander systems in the U.S.A. regime.
Half the votes in half the gerrymander areas = about 25-30 percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule. Much, much worse in the gerrymander U.S.A. Senate — with its many below average very small States — with blowhard MORON Senators.
Only about 6 of 50 States are now *marginal* in Prez elections.
EVIL MORONS love having EVIL MORON minority rule governments.
EVIL MORONS probably loved having the old EVIL MORON divine right of kings regimes — i.e. murderous monarchs and their stooge oligarch supporters. — think recently Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, etc.
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Uniform definition of Elector.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
REAL Democracy NOW — to END the EVIL rule of the monarchs / oligarchs in the last 6,000 plus years.
#5
Your suggested reform still leaves 100 EC votes by winner take all in states for senators. Still a little faulty.
NPV is coming. Stay tuned. http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
Jeff Becker,
100% correct.
The Electoral College is essential to the maintenance of liberty in America.
#8 What about democracy? EC is a dinosaur.
If these figures should prove to be accurate, then this will be the VERY first election in its history as a state that California has not gained at least one House seat in a Congressional re-apportionment. I wonder just how close California is to gaining its 54th seat. Also, with Utah now gaining its fourth seat, it would be interesting to see which state came closest to gaining another seat. Which could very well mean that the District of Columbia may have foolishly THROWN away its best opportunity to achieve FULL voting status in the House of Representatives with an increase to 437 in the membership of the House.
once obama and the DNC (and many conspiring GOPs) go down in flames (and removed permanently from office) then in the anchor babies and psuedo citizens will be removed from CA population / apportionment and CA will lose 6 house seats in congress, praise Washinton and the other grandfathered nbc founding fathers for the ultimate restoration / salvation of the US republic and return electoral sanity.
Jeff Becker:
I like the idea of each voter getting 3 Electoral Votes! I’m assuming for the “House” Electoral Vote, the Elector with the most votes wins and for the “Senate” Electoral Votes, the top 2 Electors with the most votes win, right?
Jeff Becker:
I’m also assuming that in a state with 3 Electoral Votes, the top 3 Electors get elected?
RE: U.S.A. Senate — E.C. math
In May 1775 the news of the start of the WAR on 19 Apr 1775 IN Mass. got to the 2nd Continental Congress — a political lightning bolt.
As an EMERGERCY matter each State in the 2CC was permitted to have ONE vote.
In the 1787 top secret Federal Convention the EVIL compromise was made due to the EVIL conspiracy by the EVIL small States and the EVIL slave States to have the EVIL U.S.A. Senate and Electoral College and the EVIL 3/5 clause for U.S.A. Rep. math.
1/3 of the EVIL wiped out the very hard way by the 13th Amdt and 14th Amdt, Sec. 2 for U.S.A. Reps. {but with gerrymander math).
The EVIL Senate and EVIL E.C. continue — with their EVIL minority rule math.
P.R. and App.V.