12-19-2016, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
And if it was popular vote - is it fair that those 4 million people in california decided for half of the country?
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What a cluster fuck the EU Parliament is ... My understanding of Brexit just increased 
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Under the Lisbon Treaty, seats are allocated to each state according to population and the maximum number of members is set at 751 (however, as the President cannot vote while in the chair there will only be 750 voting members at any one time).[63]
The seats are distributed according to "degressive proportionality", i.e., the larger the state, the more citizens are represented per MEP. As a result, Maltese and Luxembourgish voters have roughly 10x more influence per voter than citizens of the six large countries.
As of 2014, Germany (80.9 million inhabitants) has 96 seats (previously 99 seats), i.e. one seat for 843,000 inhabitants. Malta (0.4 million inhabitants) has 6 seats, i.e. one seat for 70,000 inhabitants.
The new system implemented under the Lisbon Treaty, including revising the seating well before elections, was intended to avoid political horse trading when the allocations have to be revised to reflect demographic changes.[64]
Pursuant to this apportionment, the constituencies are formed. In six EU member states (Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom), the national territory is divided into a number of constituencies. In the remaining member states, the whole country forms a single constituency. All member states hold elections to the European Parliament using various forms of proportional representation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...ted_Parliament
At any rate don't discuss US Civics with an educated American. As I said before; the US Senate is not apportioned and its count is included in the Electors count for each state --- it's a rigged system that was a compromise during the constitutional convention.
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The Senate and the United States Constitution. During the summer of 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia established equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
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