[Pnp-wg] Apportionment CAN be done.

[Phil Huckelberry]

My state categorically refuses to accept any formula that rewards states
just because they're partisan registration states.  Period.

The election law in Illinois is designed to beat us down.  We will not
accept the national party using that election law against us.

I'm open to reasonable compromise proposals, but registration numbers are
worthless evaluations of comparing state to state.  Total population is
far more fundamentally fair.

Even raw membership numbers, in my opinion, are not very indicative of
much of anything, because some states prioritize building up raw
registration numbers and others do not.  Wisconsin is the perfect example
- they pour immense effort into raw party-building and have gotten
numerous people elected.  Holding it against them because they have under
500 dues-paying members would, in my opinion, be ludicrous.

I still find total population to be a fairer determinant than either of
the above.  I could accept using membership numbers as a component of a
formula.  But not if those membership numbers awarded 120,000 members to
California and 400 to Illinois.  That's clearly, fundamentally, absurd.

Phil Huckelberry
Illinois Green Party