Technically white-wash is a more accurate term for it than desaturating, though personally I just view it as decreasing opacity against a white background.
Is people per elector the right measure for voting power though? There is an argument to be made (successfully in some cases [1]) that voting power is inversely proportional to the square root of the population. And of course the house seats are distributed in a different which minimizes the relative differences in voters per house seat between states [2].
Point being, voting power is a tricky thing to determine.
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Technically white-wash is a more accurate term for it than desaturating, though personally I just view it as decreasing opacity against a white background.
Is people per elector the right measure for voting power though? There is an argument to be made (successfully in some cases [1]) that voting power is inversely proportional to the square root of the population. And of course the house seats are distributed in a different which minimizes the relative differences in voters per house seat between states [2].
Point being, voting power is a tricky thing to determine.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_method
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%E2%80%93Hill_method