Voting Power

In ordinary elections, each person has a single vote and everyone's vote has the same power. However, in some situations, some voters have more votes than others.
The electoral college is one example. Presently, North Carolina has 14 votes and Alaska only 3 votes. Shareholders in a company often have the number of votes equal to the number of shares of stock they own.

On some school boards and commissions that are a union of several districts, the commissioners have votes that are proportional to the number of people in their district. A few simple examples illustrate the problem of voting power in these situations.