Florida Counties are Not Being Represented

[Keith Broaders]

Florida Counties are Not Being Represented

534,000 people live in the 13 rural counties in Florida's 3rd Senatorial District in Northern Fliruda have just one Senator, while Miami-Dade County has 6 senators and 16 Representative.

The 16 counties in Florida's Panhandle have 3 senators. and 3 votes. The people living in the Miami-Dade Countyg are over represented with 6 senators ,16 representatices and 22 votes in Florida's state legislature...

How can one senator  represent 13 counties at the same time. The senator will serve the county best that has the most voters,

In order to comply with a Supreme Court ruling the state legislature created 40 senatorial districts based on population.

This legislation turned the state's bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislature with 2 houses creating a potential tyranny of the majority.

This took from the small counties and states need a voice in their national and state legislatures. The rights of the minorities can not be protected without a senate that can block the large states and counties from completely dominating the small states and counties.

 he state senate became a second  version of the state's House of Representatives and stripped the rural counties of their vocie.. 

If the U.S. Senate were apportioned by poulation like the Florida state senate is  Florida would have 42 U.S. Senators instead of only 2. The U.S. Senate and the Senate of the States was supposed to be based on equal representation of the States and the Counties.