The problem with cartograms is that is can obliterate anything recognizable. Style.org propose to maintain the physical shapes and added scaled symbols to represent the size and proportion of the vote. Scaling each county relative to the number of delegates it elects produces a more accurate visual weighting. Although county size is distorted, the relationships between adjacent counties are preserved. One advantage of this presentation is that the relative voting power of each county is made immediately apparent.

Via Cartography Mapping election results

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