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> Malapportionment is the creation of electoral districts with divergent ratios of voters to representatives. That begs the question of whether the representat
by eadmund 4y ago
> Malapportionment is the creation of electoral districts with divergent ratios of voters to representatives.
That begs the question of whether the representatives represent voters or something else. I think it's obvious that Senators represent the states, and in that sense the ratio of represented to representatives is a fair and even 1:2.
- js2 4y agoThe term was coined in the 1960s to describe how voters are represented. Any unequal representation of the voter is by definition malapportionment. That is the common use of the term. A Google or DDG search will find dozens upon dozens of uses of this meaning: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2108670 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2108670 https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/02/archives/westchester-malapportionment.html https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/02/archives/westchester-mala... https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/20/archives/and-to-malapportionment.html https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/20/archives/and-to-malapport... https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/10/opinion/one-person-one-vote-for-new-york.html https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/10/opinion/one-person-one-vo... Etc. The Senate is a malapportioned legislative body by design and by definition.