Comment on Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
elscallr@lemmy.world 1 year ago“Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States, or to the People.” -10th Amendment to the United States Constitution
Restrict the federal government’s power to only those powers explicitly delegated to them by the Constitution and I’d be ok with eliminating the Electoral College.
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would that be relevant to switching to a voting system that produces winners that more accurately reflects the will of the people?
elscallr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the will of the people in your definition is the will of a handful of cities and our country is too big for that.
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No it’s not. A popular vote is a vote that reflects what the majority want. It has nothing to do with the location of the voter. We should not have the weight of our votes be effected by where we live, like we currently have with the electoral college. My vote should count the same way as anybody else’s, and so should yours.
Ideally the presidency and all other offices would be handled with STAR or approval voting, as they do not produce spoiler effects, weights by voter location, and help reduce extremist candidates.
And it needs to change because the current system is fundamentally flawed. Our current system weights a voter’s voice by where they live, ignores huge swaths of people, has a spoiler effect, and does nothing to stop extremist candidates.
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Swing states don’t get the only say, a vote in an uncontested or lopsided race is still counted. All you are complaining about is you want your state to feel special on election night.
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Slabs of stone don’t have will. People have.