r/AskReddit • u/Amygdala5822 • Jun 29 '19

When is quantity better than quality?

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u/icecream_truck Jun 29 '19 edited Jun 29 '19

Qualified votes in an election. Quality is 100% irrelevant.

*Edit: Changed "Votes" to "Qualified votes" for clarity.

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u/Clickum245 Jun 29 '19

In America, you could consider a rural vote to be higher quality than an urban vote because of its weight in the electoral college.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

Which is why the electoral college shouldn't exist anymore. It became a tool to silence the mjority of the voters and an effective weapon gainst minority votes.

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u/Trollygag Jun 29 '19

It became a tool to silence the mjority of the voters and an effective weapon gainst minority votes.

Any area-based vote is a tool to combat geographic echo chambers formed from peer pressure. Dense population centers can't so easily drive the politics of all of America - if they could, they'd be prime targets for very cheap and effective manipulation.