&gt;<i>It&#x27;s still not disproportionate.  Old people don&#x27;t get more votes.</i><p>I&#x27;m afraid you have misread disproportionate to mean some kind of unfair representation.<p>It just means &quot;they are more, and thus get more votes&quot;, i.e. that their influence (because of their numbers) is higher. Nobody implied they get more than 1 vote per person...<p>disproportionate: &quot;too large or too small in comparison with something else&quot;