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Technically every single voter in Nevada could vote for one candidate yet under certain circumstances all their votes would go to the the opposing candidate und
by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Technically every single voter in Nevada could vote for one candidate yet under certain circumstances all their votes would go to the the opposing candidate under the Compact.
Yeah, I don't think all the people in smaller states falling over themselves to join the Compact are really thinking this through.
- standardUser 7y agoWhat you described is precisely the intended effect of the pact.
- cybersnowflake 7y agoI know the designers of the Pact understand this, I'm just not so sure about all the voters in smaller states signing on to the Compact.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoThe argument "but the majority of people in Nevada could vote for candidate X and candidate Y could still carry their state?" is true, yet a little misleading; the net effect of the Pact is to effectively weight all votes equally at a national level rather than a state level. If you believe that the condition we have now -- that the majority of people in the United States could vote for candidate X and candidate Y could still win the election -- then this is an improvement, even if it's effectively a hack of the electoral college system to make it behave as if it wasn't there at all.