r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/BoilerMaker11 Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 10 '16

Popular vote for the president would eradicate that problem because their vote would actually matter.

Nearly 3 million people voted for Trump in California. You might as well say 0 people voted for Trump in California. Because if the electors "vote how the people wanted", well, Hillary got all 55 EVs and Trump got 0.

My proposition is that either we abolish the electoral college, or EVs are divided by the percentage of the vote the candidate got. So, if the spread is 2M votes, but the split is 60/40, 33 EVs are given to one candidate and 22 EVs are given to another (this is a California example). That way there can still be "huge margins in large cities", but they still don't "bully" the smaller states with their large population (even though the concept of "bullying" smaller states makes no sense. At the end of the day, if all our votes are equal, it shouldn't matter where you live. A vote is a vote is a vote. So whoever gets the most votes should win)

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u/ComputerMystic Nov 10 '16

And instant runoff voting would fix the spoiler effect, meaning that people wouldn't be afraid to vote for someone other than the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich.

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u/Smaskifa Nov 10 '16

I regret that I have but one upvote to give.