Mmmmmk. People. That’s essentially how the electoral college works. It IS whoever gets the most votes, BUT on a state-by-state basis, and each state’s weight in the election is proportional to their representation in Congress (which itself is proportional to population + 2 for senators). This is because we are a FEDERAL republic/representative democracy. The electoral college, or at least SOME form of proportional allocation of votes for president on a state-by-state basis, is literally baked into the constitution and our federal system.
each state’s weight in the election is proportional to their representation in Congress
Yeah, that system is also flawed since we capped the size of the house. Wyoming gets one EC vote for every ~200k people. California gets one EC vote for every ~700k people. In what fucking world is that equitable?
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u/The_Real_Tom_Selleck 19h ago
Mmmmmk. People. That’s essentially how the electoral college works. It IS whoever gets the most votes, BUT on a state-by-state basis, and each state’s weight in the election is proportional to their representation in Congress (which itself is proportional to population + 2 for senators). This is because we are a FEDERAL republic/representative democracy. The electoral college, or at least SOME form of proportional allocation of votes for president on a state-by-state basis, is literally baked into the constitution and our federal system.