[EL] “Feeling Underrepresented, California Groups Demand 1,200 More Lawmakers”

[Sean Parnell]

The article regarding the lawsuit in California to substantially increase the size of the legislature in California reminded me of a similar call to increase the size of the U.S. House of Representatives – to around 6,000 or so, last time I checked. http://www.thirty-thousand.org/

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“Feeling Underrepresented, California Groups Demand 1,200 More Lawmakers”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92464>
Posted on May 10, 2017 7:54 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92464> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Courthouse News Service:<https://www.courthousenews.com/feeling-underrepresented-california-groups-demand-1200-lawmakers/>
An eclectic group of plaintiffs of all political stripes want to renovate California’s political system, which they say is burdened by an “oligarchic” state government shaped by exponential population growth and an influx of corporate money in local elections.
Led by a group of secessionists whose main goal is to eventually break away from California, the plaintiffs claim in a federal lawsuit<http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/More-CA-Lawmakers-COMPLAINT.pdf> that the Golden State has stubbornly refused to increase its number of elected state lawmakers despite a population that has ballooned to nearly 40 million. With just one state senator per approximately one million people, the Californians say their votes have been diluted and their elections “purchased” by candidates from the two major parties.
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