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When will the size of the electoral college change again?

• votepaunchy 4y ago
  When Puerto Rico or DC become states. Each would add two Senators and draw from the pool of Representatives (replacing DC’s third elector).
• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > When will the size of the electoral college change again? When: (1) One or more new states are added, or (2) The law fixing the size of the House is amended/replaced. I wouldn’t be surprised if those happen together, so that adding the new state adds on rather than redistributes seats in the House initially. Note that D.C. being added (with no change to the fixed size of the House) as a state would actually shrink the electoral college by one, since it would add two Senators and zero reps, but D.C. already has three electors; any other state being added (with no change to the fixed size of the House) would add two electors for the two additional Senators added.
  • dllthomas 4y ago
    Or in theory 3) when the Constitution is amended in a way that changes the makeup of the electoral college, but in practice that's much less likely to happen than the other two (which are themselves unlikely to happen soon).
• crazygringo 4y ago
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