VOTING POWER IN THE U.S. ELECTORAL COLLEGE

Jan 11, 2014

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Voting Power and the Electoral College. The Voting Power Problem. Does the Electoral College system (as it has operated [?winner-take-all"] since the 1830s) give voters in different states unequal voting power?If so, voters in which states are favored and which disfavored and by how much?One obvi

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