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In response to "Question: What does it take to add members to the House of Rep. There are 438 currently. They get apportioned to each state through census data" by TWuG

435, but yeah, what they said. -- nm

Posted by znufrii Oct 29 '16, 11:20

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Then where does 538 come from? That's 100 Senators and...? -- nm - TWuG Oct 29, 11:25 2
- 3 EV for DC. -- nm - Reagen Oct 29, 11:33 1
  - Yeah, that occurred to me after an embarrassing length of time. :-) -- nm - TWuG Oct 29, 12:52
And iinm, adding a new state would add one new representative, but only until the next reapportionment, when it would go back to 435. -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 11:21

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