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The thing that shocked me about US electoral college is that the votes themselves aren’t proportional. Some states like Nebraska have vote per congressional di
by nojvek 6y ago
The thing that shocked me about US electoral college is that the votes themselves aren’t proportional.
Some states like Nebraska have vote per congressional district, but big states like Texas, California, Washington, Florida are all or nothing.
A republican in Washington has almost no impact on final outcome since its been blue for eons. Vice versa for democrat in Texas.
The way we count votes in US is not a true democracy. It’s a very weird counting game. In addition every state has its quirk of when and how they count votes (esp mail in votes).
We really need to evaluate our election process.
- MikeAmelung 6y agoIt is the way it is on purpose. The President of the United States is not meant to have so much power that everyone is all up in arms about it all the time. If anything needs to be evaluated, it's executive orders and whatever has happened to Congress.
- bobthepanda 6y agoWinner-takes-all for states in the EC was not the original implementation. In fact the Constitution doesn't make any recommendation on how states should allocate EC votes at all. https://electoralvotemap.com/winner-take-all-electoral-college/ https://electoralvotemap.com/winner-take-all-electoral-colle...
- bobthepanda 6y agoThis was not historically true on its inception. The problem is that states are allowed to determine how exactly they allocate their electoral college votes, and when one state became winner-takes-all EC it became more advantageous to campaign in their state to get many more electoral votes for the same amount of campaigning; which started a domino effect and now pretty much all states are winner-takes-all.