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The point about the American election is that if people knew going into the vote that it was a popular vote across the country, voting behavior would change. M
by skrtskrt 5y ago
The point about the American election is that if people knew going into the vote that it was a popular vote across the country, voting behavior would change.
Many people don’t vote at all because their preferred president has a 0% chance of winning their state and the vast majority of states are winner-take all with the electoral votes
- oneoff786 5y agoOr they don’t vote because their preferred president has a 100% chance of winning, which is more often the case given their community is already deeply red or blue
- mywittyname 5y agoMaybe they do vote because local elections are important.
- pessimizer 5y agoLocal elections can be important, but if all the candidates are bad, they're not.
- skrtskrt 5y agosure, the known set of rules causes some types of voters to be more likely to vote, and other types less likely. The point is that you can't possibly know how all those interactions among voters would play out if you did in fact update the rules