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The electoral college is weighted representative democracy as opposed to a direct vote. It's clumsy but still reflects the popular vote.
by somedangedname 9y ago
The electoral college is weighted representative democracy as opposed to a direct vote. It's clumsy but still reflects the popular vote.
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt's actually unequally-weighted doubly indirect representation with structural incentives (but no guarantee) for the representatives actually tasked with choosing the voting representatives to both delegated that task to the citizenry and a separate set of incentives and abide by the results and a separate set of incentives (and, again, no guarantee) for the set of voting representatives to vote in accordance with the preferences expressed by the voters by whom they were elected. And neither of those sets of incentives is, unlike the doubly-indirect structure itself, part of the federal Constitution; they are both much more recent federal statute and state law incentives.
- somedangedname 9y agoYah, so like I said it's clumsy.
- yellowapple 9y agoThe most recent presidential election suggests otherwise.