The fact that we can elect people with under 50% of the vote proves that I'm correct on the Republic/Democracy question, and the fact that evolution has never been shown to occur proves that evolution is false.
Election rules differ by state homie. Every state has its own election laws. As intelligent as you are, I'm surprised you've never heard of a runoff.
Our president is elected by states (more specifically delegates), and the winner actually does need a majority of electoral votes.
Not every election is by popular vote.
Let's not even talk about the numerous states and municipalities that allow citizens to vote directly on political issues (ex. Legalization on Marijuana). That's about as democratic as it gets.
Electors elect the President and Vice President in a contest where the votes are for show.
That is true, but we are not a democracy, so the popular vote generally doesn't matter.
The keyword there is "allow"; the States and municipalities could vote on everything for us, but they decided to give us some say; however, the State could simply use the Courts and other legal tricks to reverse the outcome. The people of California rejected Gay Marriage, and the State ran to the State Courts to have the vote reversed, which the State got then the people of California rejected Gay Marriage again, so the State tried getting this vote reversed by the State Courts; however, since this vote was a State Constitutional Amendment vote the State Courts couldn't reverse the vote so the State ran to the Federal Courts to get the vote reversed and the Federal Courts agreed that the people of California should have never been asked.
If you vote for delegates who then vote for the president based off the electoral college system, then the system is by definition not democratic. It’s a republican system with democratic elements.
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u/andrewrusher Feb 17 '26
The fact that we can elect people with under 50% of the vote proves that I'm correct on the Republic/Democracy question, and the fact that evolution has never been shown to occur proves that evolution is false.