Comment on Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College

• PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  people’s votes won’t matter as the margin will be more than 100,000 their vote makes no difference

  But each of those votes are counted the same, and I don’t want FPTP like you seem to think.

  Instead I want STAR or approval voting. So that complaint doesn’t really apply because with both STAR and approval, each vote is counted equally, and give you more control over how your vote contributes to the final count.

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  • jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Votes are counted equality in the electoral system, popular voting, ranking systems, or approval. Your perceived value of a vote in the swing states vs a vote in solid states is just that. The votes still count no matter which state they are from.

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    • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Votes are counted equality in the electoral system

      No they aren’t, they are weighted by state, and if your state votes against you your vote essentially gets tossed out in favor of the candidate you voted against.

      theconversation.com/whose-votes-count-the-least-i…

      They literally are not counted equally.

      The votes still count no matter which state they are from.

      A red vote in a blue state gets ignored. A blue vote in a red state gets ignored. That is a terrible design.

      And votes shouldn’t just all count, all of them should be counted equally, instead we get the vote of a

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      • jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So you’ve shifted from votes only matter in swing states to votes only matter if their side wins and smaller states have a higher elector to population rates.

        None of that matters, each person’s vote is counted once. You are conflating the outcome of the election to whether the vote counts. It’s like saying everyone who voted against an issue that passed vote did not count.

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