Today I learned on Nostr: TIL there were over 525 Million Votes in the 1964 Illinois House of Representative ...

TIL there were over 525 Million Votes in the 1964 Illinois House of Representative Election. Because the state failed to redistrict, every single seat was elected at-large due to a constitutional quirk in the Illinois Constitution, meaning each person could vote for all 177 candidates seperately

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Illinois_House_of_Representatives_election
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