Lifting the 435 seat limit on the size of the U.S. House would make the Electoral College fairer. [View all]

[Ken Burch]

And it can be done without going through the process of amending the Constitution(as we would have to do to abolish the EC).

The 435 seat cap on the size of the House was established by statute in 1911(The Apportionment Act of 1911) at a time when the U.S. population was less than half of what it is now.

This has led to a massive imbalance in representation in the House(the chamber that is supposed to offer representation by population).

And since each state's Electoral College representation is based on the combined size of its House and Senate delegations), the act has skewed the Electoral College results severely.

If we were to repeal the Apportionment Act, OR to amend it to establish congressional representation on the basis of 1 seat for every 600,000 people(which would leave the existing representation of the smallest states intact), the size of the House would grow from 435 seats to 531 seats-this would increase the Electoral College from 538 seats to 634...creating a much more representational House(a 96 seat increase would be manageable) and an Electoral College in which "wrong winner" elections would be much more unlikely.

It's achievable in a way that Electoral College abolition, at this point, is not.