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You should also be opposed to the electoral college then. The electoral college vote count is still based on population counts. The electoral college accompli

• giantg2 4y ago
  "The electoral college accomplishes none of the goals of republic style voting you’d like, nor the direct popular vote that others want" Isn't that basically the goal in the US - balance of power between the states and feds, as well as between democracy and republic? Similar to the house of representatives vs senate. The states also have control over how they want to divide the votes (proportional, winner take all, etc). Not that it's necessarily fair. But I don't see a straight popular vote being completely fair either (depending on the definition we're using, like equal vs equitable).
• phpisthebest 4y ago
  I think you have confused a feature for a bug. Correct in that the Electoral College is not a full Republic, that is no the intent, nor is it desired. There should always be a mix of power, power for the people, and power for the States. the Electoral College attempts to balance that by granting 2 Votes for every state no matter the population, then granting another amount of votes based on population. The 2 votes representing the state (i.e the Senate which was originally the states Representatives in Congress), and Equal number of votes to representatives in Congress, (i.e the People) In this way both "stakeholders" the States and the People are represented in the federal government