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- Jul 28, 2003
OK, a question to the constitutional scholars here How do immigrants count when it comes to figuring out the state's electoral votes. Now, I know that the number of electors equals number of Congressmen from the given state, so I guess the question is - how do immigrants figure into that as well? If the state has 100,000 citizens and 50,000 immigrants (let's say legal immigrants to simplify the matter) - what figures are used to determine electoral votes and number of House of Representatives congressmen? I know the constitution specified what to do with a similar conundrum of non-voting residents by specifying that each slave was to be counted as 3/5 of a person, but what do we currently do with immigrants?