"Restoring Colorado" ballot initiative?

[Circuits]

Sounds like a system with disproportionately high representation for rural counties... which is appealing if you're of a more conservative bent, since cities breed liberalism, but not really a representative government any more.

[GilpinGuy]

Sounds like a system with disproportionately high representation for rural counties... which is appealing if you're of a more conservative bent, since cities breed liberalism, but not really a representative government any more.

That argument can be said for the US Senate as well. Wyoming has 2 Senators, just like California. Should WY have the same number as CA since they have such a smaller population?

[Circuits]

That argument can be said for the US Senate as well. Wyoming has 2 Senators, just like California. Should WY have the same number as CA since they have such a smaller population?

In the federal system, the more numerous house is the one which represents per population, the inverse of the proposed system.

I'd be OK if every county got an equal number of senators, but the reps were properly proportioned by population - which is exactly how the federal system does it.

To make the more numerous house based on geographic division rather than population distribution is going the wrong way, IMO.

[GilpinGuy]

In the federal system, the more numerous house is the one which represents per population, the inverse of the proposed system.

I'd be OK if every county got an equal number of senators, but the reps were properly proportioned by population - which is exactly how the federal system does it.

To make the more numerous house based on geographic division rather than population distribution is going the wrong way, IMO.

But then there would be 64 Senators (64 counties). Cool with that?

[Circuits]

But then there would be 64 Senators (64 counties). Cool with that?

You'd have to amp up the house to at least twice that number to maintain balance. I'm not cool with increasing the size of government in general, so I'd instead propose an alternate system making me dictator-for-life of Colorado. I hereby promise I'll bitch-slap libs regularly.

[Hound]

But then there would be 64 Senators (64 counties). Cool with that?

Or you could have 128 of 'em. Regardless.... I would be ok with this approach on the broad strokes.