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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zeus posted...

Except no, the electoral system makes sense. You're assuming that the nation was intended to be a direct democracy when that was literally never the case. You want to play chess like checkers, basically.

This is the problem, you think an election should be a game, not a representation.

It is a representation. However, because the representation doesn't get you the result you want, you want to change the rules.

Revelation34 posted...

Zeus posted...

Except no, the electoral system makes sense. You're assuming that the nation was intended to be a direct democracy when that was literally never the case. You want to play chess like checkers, basically.

It can make "sense" It just doesn't work since nobody's vote matters since only the delegate votes matter.

And the delegates vote based on the will of the people.

Chewster posted...

That really has very little to do with what I said. I know they are determined by population, but they aren't anywhere close to being proportional across all states. It's bullshit. So is winner-take-all, it drives so many people away from voting that I don't really think we get an accurate representation of how the country feels.

It's supposed to balance influence, not perfectly represent the proportions. If it did perfectly represent the proportions then there wouldn't be balance.
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