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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5986164" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Yes but your group sees racism in everything.&nbsp; The fact was that at that time there were slave and non slave states.&nbsp; They had to reach a compromise.&nbsp; That they came up with the 3/5ths designation for counting the black population in the Census doesn&#039;t taint the EC&#039;s proceedings today.&nbsp; What they did then is a reminder of what the world was like then.&nbsp; The EC today is about insuring that citizens in all states have a voice in the political process.&nbsp; California gets the most influence by sheer numbers of legislators but doesn&#039;t get to dominate national discourse because one party has an overwhelming majority there.&nbsp; It&#039;s why we have 50 different state elections as opposed to one Federal election.&nbsp; And why candidates have to go to places like Wisconsin and North Carolina rather than just set up shop in California and New York.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 5986164, member: 24302"] Yes but your group sees racism in everything. The fact was that at that time there were slave and non slave states. They had to reach a compromise. That they came up with the 3/5ths designation for counting the black population in the Census doesn't taint the EC's proceedings today. What they did then is a reminder of what the world was like then. The EC today is about insuring that citizens in all states have a voice in the political process. California gets the most influence by sheer numbers of legislators but doesn't get to dominate national discourse because one party has an overwhelming majority there. It's why we have 50 different state elections as opposed to one Federal election. And why candidates have to go to places like Wisconsin and North Carolina rather than just set up shop in California and New York. [/QUOTE]

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