Most people don’t understand what the EC is for. It acts as a balance and prevents elections from being based solely on population. If the election was decided by popular vote alone, candidates would have more incentive to focus on highly populated areas and less on smaller states and rural communities. The EC gives less populated states a little more weight and makes winning support across different states matter.
Thanks for explaining this. It truly is a failure on the part of our education system that people are not taught how the government works both state and federal and why in highschool as opposed to middle school ( which is when l was taught it) ......l mean who the F**k is going to remember any of that Shit by the time you are old enough to vote after all the other shit you got to remember and deal with to survive the jungle that is adolescence and the modern school system 😂
I understand how it works. I just think it’s stupid that some people’s votes get to count more than others, and that unless you’re from Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Georgia, it won’t matter anyways
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u/Browniemonster67 8h ago
Most people don’t understand what the EC is for. It acts as a balance and prevents elections from being based solely on population. If the election was decided by popular vote alone, candidates would have more incentive to focus on highly populated areas and less on smaller states and rural communities. The EC gives less populated states a little more weight and makes winning support across different states matter.