Hypothetically if the House size were increased, would make gerrymandering better or worse? (user search)
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Figueira
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« on: January 02, 2022, 08:46:06 AM »

I think it would become more proportional, but there would be proportionally less competitive districts. It's harder to draw competitive districts when they're confined to a small geographic area.
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2022, 06:00:24 PM »

I think it would become more proportional, but there would be proportionally less competitive districts. It's harder to draw competitive districts when they're confined to a small geographic area.

This. It's what occurred whenever I did various hypotheticals with the DRA data between 2016 and 2018. The other thing is that increasing the House's size is a comparatively easy way to lower the Electoral College vote strength discrepancy between the large and tiny states.

That isn't the main problem with the electoral college, though.
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