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Just a friendly reminder that the electoral college is voter suppression. I live in the most populous state in the union and my vote is worth less than a third of the vote of someone in a whiter, less populous state.
Wyoming, an over 80% white state with the lowest population, a Republican stronghold since 1952, is the most overrepresented state in the electoral college.
A vote in Wyoming is worth 3.6 times a vote in California if you go by electoral college representation. Fun!
Keep in mind that this ignores actual voter turnout, also strongly influenced by voter suppression. The electoral college is about overrepresenting slave states, as was the hideous three fifths compromise.
Both the electoral college and the practice of counting prisoners create ongoing versions of the three fifths compromise today.
Prisons are often in conservative counties. The populations of prisons count toward the representation of those counties, but most of the prisoners are prohibited from voting.
"...since the first U.S. census in 1790, the federal government has included incarcerated people in the population counts of where they're imprisoned."
"In many cases, rural, predominantly white towns see their population numbers boosted by population counts from prisons disproportionately made up of black and Latinx people."
"'The incarcerated are not only missing from their communities,' the study's authors, Brianna Remster and Rory Kramer, wrote, but 'they are also advantaging other communities.'"
White supremacy suffuses all our voting practices from the top down.
The jig just passed the moon and is continuing on toward Mars.
