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Originally Posted by calf
I'm not too familiar with how everything works, but isn't that balanced out by how representatives are elected in the House? And set up so that the bigger states aren't always bullying the smaller ones?
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California has 53 House Representatives, or 1 for every ~754k people. Wyoming has 1 House Representative, or 1 for every ~600k people. So even in the House, which is designed to be weighted solely by population, smaller states receive disproportionately more representation (and that's before we even consider the effects of partisan gerrymandering and other voter suppression tactics employed by Republicans to dilute support for their opponents).
In a fair democracy one person = one vote, and all votes should be weighted equally, but the US system doesn't work that way -- not in the House, not in the Senate, and not in the Electoral College.