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I don't get your point. you say it is not true and then you agree that some outliers exist. this is exactly the point, that there are outliers like this in US C
by PunchTornado 8y ago
I don't get your point. you say it is not true and then you agree that some outliers exist. this is exactly the point, that there are outliers like this in US Congress, just like there are in the EU parliament. Probably the value is higher in the EU, but I think that's fair to protect the smaller states.
- isostatic 8y agoHis argument is that the 11:1 ratio of MEPs is not democratic, but the 2:1 ratio of Congress is democratic. The UK has a system, widely known as democratic, where the government of the day (with the exception of 2010), does not have the support of the voting population. In 2015 David Cameron and his Tory party got 100% of power in Parliament, and thus 100% of power in the executive, based on 36.9% of the voting public. The U.S presidential elections are also classed as democratic, despite that twice in the last 20 years more people have voted for a different candidate than the one who became president. (It's actually worse than 11:1 ratio -- Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian has 1.3m voters per MEP, Malta has 70,000, that's a 19:1 ratio) However I've never heard people complain that Malta, Luxemboug, Slovenia, Cyprus etc hold the cards, people always complain it's Germany and the UK that call the shots.
- PunchTornado 8y agoalso each vote cast in Wyoming is worth 3.6 as much as the same vote cast in California. still less than in the EU.