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I 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.
by cybersnowflake 7y ago
I 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.