11-09-2016, 11:08 PM
(11-09-2016, 10:53 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Of course one state holds more weight than another on the popular vote, as do certain cities.
Our Nation is distributed by state, why shouldn't the vote? Could the EC use some massaging? Sure, but popular is not the way to go.
I don't understand how one person equals one vote nationally create skew. But, assuming it does, with the way the EC is weighted there is skew, no matter how you do it and it is a greater skew than there could ever be with a national popular vote. For instance, you would need only a plurality of the vote to get 10.22% of the electoral votes with California. To get that much of the weight in a popular vote you would need to win 84%.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
