Expand the House?

In the article "Expand the House?" by Peter Baker, he addresses the idea that the United States should expand the House of Representatives. The weight of each person’s vote in the House of Representatives is unequal because of the varying numbers of people represented by one member of the house. Between 523,000 and 958,000 people are represented by just one member, which makes the vote of a single person count less in some states than in others. A federal court challenge will be filed Thursday in Mississippi stating that the system deprives people in some states their right. To fix this problem the lawsuit suggests increasing the house size from 435 seats to at least 932, and even up to 1,761 so that it would be more equal. Some see this as something that would make the House less stable and harder to control. Also, this would be resisted by people who don’t want to dilute their power. The House has had 435 representatives since 1911, and it has stayed that way except when it became 437 because of Alaska and Hawaii, even though the population has risen greatly. In other western democracies there are more representatives and less people, and our government is not proportional to theirs. This article is important because we need to have a democracy where votes are truly equal.