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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1504287, member: 39"]Well, my previous reply was supposed to be a little more light hearted, but if you rather discuss the way how voting in the EU works ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Correct, that is how it basically works over here, but I suppose that particularly for Americans it won't be hard to understand that you also want to take the different sizes (population wise) of the states etc. into account. Some EU member states have a two chamber system, similar to the American one.</p><p><br /></p><p>One-man-one-vote does applies (more or less) to the House in the US, while in the Senate each state has the same number of seats, right? Well, here in Germany the one-man-one-vote principle applies (more or less) to the Bundestag, while in the Bundesrat each state has between 3 and 6 seats.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the European Parliament we have a mix of both: Each member state has a certain number of seats, very roughly according to its population, and which party gets what portion of those seats depends on how many votes it got in that member state.</p><p><br /></p><p>The idea is the very same as in other parliaments: You want don't want one single (member) state, or two or three big ones, to dominate or majorize the others.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>(Any moderators around? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The topic has had a "political smell" from the very beginning, but if you guys think we get even OTer than before, feel free to edit or move this.)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1504287, member: 39"]Well, my previous reply was supposed to be a little more light hearted, but if you rather discuss the way how voting in the EU works ... ;) Correct, that is how it basically works over here, but I suppose that particularly for Americans it won't be hard to understand that you also want to take the different sizes (population wise) of the states etc. into account. Some EU member states have a two chamber system, similar to the American one. One-man-one-vote does applies (more or less) to the House in the US, while in the Senate each state has the same number of seats, right? Well, here in Germany the one-man-one-vote principle applies (more or less) to the Bundestag, while in the Bundesrat each state has between 3 and 6 seats. In the European Parliament we have a mix of both: Each member state has a certain number of seats, very roughly according to its population, and which party gets what portion of those seats depends on how many votes it got in that member state. The idea is the very same as in other parliaments: You want don't want one single (member) state, or two or three big ones, to dominate or majorize the others. [i](Any moderators around? :) The topic has had a "political smell" from the very beginning, but if you guys think we get even OTer than before, feel free to edit or move this.)[/i] Christian[/QUOTE]
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