Live Free AND Die might be the new state motto.
“The swearing in of the the 400-member House and 24-member Senate”
That’s an excessively large House and too small Senate.
I’m sorry he died, and if the photo is representative, he was wearing his mask ineffectively.
NH is known for having a completely bizarre and unwieldy system for its House, with districts having varying numbers of members according to their population (up to 11 in some instances according to this link):
No, I don’t understand why either.
Using that ratio, the US House would have somewhere around 99,000-100,000 members, depending on how recent the base population figures were.
That doesn’t sound so weird to me.
Yeah, that just sounds like they modeled it off the US proper. Or, since New Hampshire came first, maybe the other way around.
No, at the federal level, there must be single member districts. There can’t be districts with varying numbers of members.
At the federal level, the next step down is the state. And the states do have different numbers of representatives based on population.
We have the Senate, where each state has 2 representatives, and the House of Representatives, in which each state has a number of representatives in proportion to the state’s population.
It’s nothing like the US. I live in NY state where we currently have 27 representatives. I get to vote for one candidate—the one I like best who is running in my district. I can’t vote for anybody else. If my state used the NH House system, I’d be entitled to vote for 27 candidates, each representing the entire state. No state operates this way on the congressional level. I’m not aware of any other states that do this at the state level though there may be some (IL had three per district until about 1980). Some cities do at large voting, which is kind of like this. But NH is really unusual w/regard to states.
My friend likes to say “wearing your mask with your nose hanging out is like wearing your pants with your dick hanging out. Might as well not wear it at all!”
And in both cases, keeping it in helps prevent spreading disease.
I’m not referring to the number of members a state has in total. I was responding to the comment that New Hampshire’s multi-member districts were the same as the House of Representatives.
New Hampshire has multi-member districts in its lower house, with some districts having only one member, and other districts having more than one member. One state district actually has 11 members, according to Wikipedia:
Federal law prohibits multi-member districts for the US House of Representatives. Each district may only elect one member.