Apportionment
The Apportionment Act of 1940 fixed the size of the U.S. House of Representatives at this number.
What is 435?
The Article of the U.S. Constitution that establishes the Legislative branch and enumerates its powers and responsibilities.
What is Article 1?
The tactic of concentrating voters of an opposition party into a limited number of electoral districts.
What is packing?
Having more votes than any other candidate or option.
What is a plurality?
This member of our class doesn't live in San Francisco.
Who is Berenice?
This method of apportionment was vetoed by George Washington in 1792 but ultimately adopted in the 1850s.
What is Hamilton's method?
This person said that democracy is "government of the people, by the people, for the people".
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The political practice of gerrymandering is named after this person.
Who is Elbridge Gerry?
Audio question: pronounce the name "Condorcet".
What is Condorcet?
The correct spelling of KJ's first and last names.
What is Kristjiana Gong?
An apportionment satisfies this rule if every group receives no fewer than its lower quota and no more than its upper quota.
What is the quota rule?
Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution enumerates the powers and responsibilities of this branch of government.
What is the Judicial branch?
The difference between the wasted votes on each side divided by the total number of votes.
What is the efficiency gap?
For large elections, ranked choice election results are typically tabulated using this type of equipment.
What are optical scanners?
The number of people on the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco.
What is eleven?
This apportionment method rounds using the geometric mean.
What is the Huntington-Hill method?
This portion of Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the right to make laws "necessary and proper" for carrying out its enumerated powers.
What is The Elastic Clause?
This method of evaluating the compactness of an electoral district compares the area of the district to the area of a circle drawn around the district.
What is Reock score?
Reaching this threshold will win a ranked-choice vote immediately.
What is a majority?
The error on the official portrait of Governor Schwarzenegger in the capitol.
What is not enough stars on the flag?
The total population divided by the number of seats to be apportioned.
What is the standard divisor?
The steps that are taken after a representative sponsors a bill, before it can become a law.
What are...
The efficiency gap, declination, partisan bias, and mean-median difference are different measures that describe this characteristic of an electoral district.
What is fairness?
This type of election can often be avoided by using ranked-choice voting, saving time and money.
What is a runoff election?
The six fictional nations that comprise the Central Pacific Union.
What are Kacerz, The Kingdom of Vozabeclbourgh, New Agartha, Monopolia, Paradia, and The United Isles of Cacao