It's half baked, but the general idea of weighing congressional representation by how gerrymandered a state is might be effective.
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Ok, more baking. Here we go. 🔹 Draft Constitutional Amendment (Plain-Language Style) Section 1. Each Representative in the House of Representatives shall ordinarily possess one vote of equal weight.
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Section 2. When the distribution of Representatives elected from a State is substantially disproportionate to the statewide share of votes cast for candidates for the House of Representatives,
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the votes of Representatives from that State may be weighted to ensure that the overall influence of the State’s delegation reflects the proportion of votes cast by its people.
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Section 3. Congress shall have power to establish by law the standards, methods, and procedures for determining disproportionality, and to provide for the manner in which the weight of Representatives’ votes shall be adjusted.
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Section 4. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to affect the equal suffrage of the States in the Senate.
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🔹 Practical Example Under This Amendment Say in Ohio: 55% voted Republican, 45% voted Democrat. The delegation is 12 Republicans, 3 Democrats (80/20 split).
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Congress (using whatever formula it adopts) could say: Ohio’s GOP Reps’ votes count at ~0.9 each. Ohio’s Democratic Reps’ votes count at ~1.35 each. The net effect: Ohio’s delegation’s weighted balance reflects 55/45 instead of 80/20.
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