MO: 1944 Referendum General Election Result

[RBH]

New Election: 1944 Missouri Referendum General Election Results
   
   

Amazing how close this can get while losing 113 of 115 counties. IOW, the counties that were guaranteed to lose representation from a switch from 100+ reps elected to represent an entire county, did not like this. But underrepresented urban areas did.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I think unicameral legislatures would be worthwhile for smaller states. I mean, do Vermont, Wyoming, and Delaware really need a House and a Senate?

[Franzl]

I think unicameral legislatures would be worthwhile for smaller states. I mean, do Vermont, Wyoming, and Delaware really need a House and a Senate?

Does any state, or for that matter the federal level need both?

[Badger]

I think unicameral legislatures would be worthwhile for smaller states. I mean, do Vermont, Wyoming, and Delaware really need a House and a Senate?

Does any state, or for that matter the federal level need both?

Federal level, yes, for a variety of very good reasons.

State level, not so much.

For that matter, why does New Hampshire--or any state--need one state rep for every 3300 people?

[Хahar 🤔]

We have far too many state legislators.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think unicameral legislatures would be worthwhile for smaller states. I mean, do Vermont, Wyoming, and Delaware really need a House and a Senate?

Part of the reason North Dakota considered going unicameral about a decade or so ago. Didn't pass though.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I think unicameral legislatures would be worthwhile for smaller states. I mean, do Vermont, Wyoming, and Delaware really need a House and a Senate?

Part of the reason North Dakota considered going unicameral about a decade or so ago. Didn't pass though.

Yeah, it's hard to convince people to eliminate their own jobs.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think unicameral legislatures would be worthwhile for smaller states. I mean, do Vermont, Wyoming, and Delaware really need a House and a Senate?

Part of the reason North Dakota considered going unicameral about a decade or so ago. Didn't pass though.

Yeah, it's hard to convince people to eliminate their own jobs.

No, there was an actual referendum that made the ballot if I remember correctly.

[minionofmidas]

We have far too many state legislators.

You Californians? Hardly.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I think unicameral legislatures would be worthwhile for smaller states. I mean, do Vermont, Wyoming, and Delaware really need a House and a Senate?

Part of the reason North Dakota considered going unicameral about a decade or so ago. Didn't pass though.

Yeah, it's hard to convince people to eliminate their own jobs.

No, there was an actual referendum that made the ballot if I remember correctly.

Ah, that makes more sense.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

We have far too many state legislators.

You Californians? Hardly.

Yeah California State Senate districts are actually larger than its US House districts.

[Хahar 🤔]

We have far too many state legislators.

You Californians? Hardly.

Yeah California State Senate districts are actually larger than its US House districts.

The fact remains that we have both a Senate and an Assembly. That's at least one house too many.

[minionofmidas]

We have far too many state legislators.

You Californians? Hardly.

Yeah California State Senate districts are actually larger than its US House districts.

The fact remains that we have both a Senate and an Assembly. That's at least one house too many.

It may be a House too many, but it's not too many legislators. Indeed, I would argue it's too few for fptp to work and have merits, and might be even if a hypothetical Unicameral had as many members as the two combined have today.

[Хahar 🤔]

We have far too many state legislators.

You Californians? Hardly.

Yeah California State Senate districts are actually larger than its US House districts.

The fact remains that we have both a Senate and an Assembly. That's at least one house too many.

It may be a House too many, but it's not too many legislators. Indeed, I would argue it's too few for fptp to work and have merits, and might be even if a hypothetical Unicameral had as many members as the two combined have today.

No, FPTP's one merit (easy gerrymandering) works quite well with 120 legislators.

[Bo]

We have far too many state legislators.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Considering that the courts have ruled that a state cannot have a non-proportional house in its legislature, there's really no reason for any state to have a bicameral legislature. Now if only the citizens of these states would get to recognizing this & vote to eliminate their vestigial chambers, we could get somewhere.