This is the push to expand the number of House Congressional districts, which used to happen every once in awhile as states were added & the population grew but has been stuck at 438 for decades for no good reason.

Doing so would also dramatically weaken the Electoral College. https://twitter.com/UncapTheHouse/status/1347359644847644673
Whoops, sorry...435; the other 3 are for the Electoral College only.

The Constitution sets a minimum number of U.S. residents per House district (30,000) but doesn't include a maximum...and now we're up to over 700,000 apiece.

At a bare minimum the Wyoming Rule.
The Wyoming Rule would set the minimum at whatever the lowest-population state is. Wyoming has 578,000 residents, so that would bring the total up to around 569 districts or so.

In theory, you could make it as few as 30,00/district, but that'd mean nearly 11,000 House districts.
Personally, I'd like to see it raised to 1,001 districts (along w/DC & PR statehood, though of course PR depends on whether they want it or not).

That'd bring it to around 332,000 per district.
As for the Electoral College, it would still be around, but you'd now have 1,103 Electoral Votes. This would dramatically reduce the EV disparity between Wyoming & California, for instance.
Right now, CA has 55 EVs, WY has 3.

Under this scenario, CA would have around 120 EVs. WY would have 4.
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