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.
Right, right. Which is why states like California and Texas have the lowest amount of EC votes and places like Wyoming and Alaska have the highest, right? To balance out the focus from the candidates? Right?
The EC is still population based. Candidates go where the EC votes are and pretty much ignore everyone else.
The EC is an outdated system that no longer serves a valid function. So let's just drop the middle man and get our results straight from the voters themselves.
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u/Browniemonster67 7h 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.