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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Or maybe it's a problem that people spread across such a vast area have the kind of political power over each other that the federal govt. yields? A lot of this is a fundamental issue in political structuring & power distribution, not in the balancing of votes.
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David Simon
@AoDespair
Given that acreage has no human aspiration or agency, and that a healthy democracy or republic grants each citizen equal political franchise, this map is an argument against the electoral college. Unless land itself is now forever to be our metric for citizenry. twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/st…
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
In Norway we have weighted regional voting favouring smaller, less populated areas, and sparsely populated northern Norway still gets shafted. It's fundamentally a problem when some bureaucrat in Oslo, almost 3000 km away, can decide if "those northerners" need e.g. railways...
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
And this is *with* Norway having fairly strong devolution of powers to county and regional levels. It simply isn't always the right things that get devolved, and the extreme centralising urge of the state often can't be fought without doing more harm than good.
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