Comment on Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
Patches@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoBro what? You might need to do a bit more research.
The Electoral College ensures rural votes have an outsized say compared to their population.
See almost every GOP state with maps redrawn in the last 4 years.
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year ago
On the whole, yes, the Electoral College gives a larger weight to rural voters by stealing it from urban voters. I was merely highlighting that it also effectively disenfranchises a lot of rural voters by consolidating all electoral power in roughly a dozen swing states. I think the argument that we need to give special privilege to rural voters is bogus, but even accepting the premise, the EC still sucks at that. The specious arguments made in its favor don’t hold up.
No1RivenFucker@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, nearly everyone would agree with that because the argument isn’t about voters, it’s about the states.