Talk:County Unit System

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From a foreigner's standpoint, it's very interesting how much this system resembles the U.S. Electoral College for the election to President. Even more interesting is that the County Unit System was ruled inconstitutional, but the Electoral College wasn't. Could somebody knowledgeable add an analysis about that to the article? MCBastos 15:27, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The Electoral College can't, by definition, be declared unconstitutional since it's prescribed by the Constitution. But, I agree, it is very similar to the Electoral College, I imagine probably inspired by the latter, but that's just a guess on my part. Nik42 03:06, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Also, based on this article, it doesn't look like the unit system was based on population, since it appears that every county had either 6, 4, or 2 votes, and I can't believe that the most populous county had only three times the population of the least populous. Nik42 03:09, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The biggest problem with this system wasn't its overall unfairness (as shared with the Electoral College, in my opinion), but the way that unfairness was directed at minimizing the electoral power of African-Americans. In a similar case, gerrymandering is in many cases perfectly legal in many states, but is illegal throughtout the US if used on the basis of race (though political preferences do often go hand-in-hand with race). Xyzzyva 14:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)