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Title	California and New York cannot actually decide the popular vote
Assumed knowledge	Students should have some knowledge of the population of the US and basic estimation skills.
Activities	Students will practice using estimation to hypothesize the proportion of the US that lives in California and New York. They will then verify population sizes to find the true proportion and calculate the relative percent error in their estimate. Students could then find clusters of states that could be used to create a population size that would be greater than 50% of the US. They could then determine the electoral votes those state clusters are apportioned to compare the popular vote share to the electoral vote share. Students will learn about basic voting methods in order to differentiate the "popular vote" from the current method(s) used in the US. They will also learn how to calculate relative percent error.
Class time	15-30 minutes
Source
"you see folks say things like "under a popular vote california and new york would decide" and it's like, how many people do you think live in those states?". Twitter. 2022-07-02. Archived from the original on 2022-08-19.
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