Representation for the 49%
You voted with the losing 49% in an election to fill your House seat. This is becoming a habit for you in this House district. Worse, the political party of the winning candidate holds the majority in the House of Representatives. Now, not only does your representative not represent your beliefs, the person you voted against has the backing of the majority party to advance an agenda you oppose.
A mere 435 House districts represent about 320,000,000 people. Each district comprises more than 700,000 people on average. If the election vote percentage reflects the actual district demographic, then about 343,000 people (the 49%) get little from their congressperson. That is 343,000 people for each House district nationwide experiencing a 51/49 split. The number of under-represented people adds up quickly.
The Representation Amendment breaks the one district with 700,000 people into about eighteen to twenty-four districts. People who live in close approximation of each other typically share political leanings, economic circumstances, and religious beliefs. For this reason, fewer of these small districts should have 51/49 splits. The small districts are more likely to have 60/40 or 70/30 splits.
In one Legacy House district divided into twenty Representation House districts, in theory a majority of the twenty seats go to the party that won the one Legacy House district. If the election results in a 10/8/2 split, as shown in the graphic, then people in those ten yellow and orange districts gained a level of representation unavailable in the current environment.
The Representation Amendment was designed to replace the 1-0 House split with a healthier 13/7 split, or a 19/5 split, or whatever split represents the true balance of voters in that geographic region. The Representation Amendment, proposed in the book, The Representation Amendment (Because we don’t have enough people in Congress and the people already there are the wrong ones), gives people who would otherwise be left out an opportunity to participate in crafting federal legislation.
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The Representation Amendment: Because we don’t have enough people in Congress and the people already there are the wrong ones
