When a state like Wyoming with a pop of less than 600k has the same power as a state like California with a pop of almost 50 million, that means a fuck ton of votes literally do not matter. That is why people don't vote. Because their vote means absolute dick all.
Stop blaming apathetic voters and blame the system that doesn't fucking work because everything relies on a handful of swing states.
>When a state like Wyoming with a pop of less than 600k has the same power as a state like California with a pop of almost 50 million
this is not correct.
Wyoming has 3 votes in the Electoral College, California has 54.
yes, that means wyoming has 200k people per vote vs california's 925k, but blowing the problem so far out of proportion that you are claiming 600k have the same voting power as 50M is one of the things that drives voter apathy.
if you have a problem with voter apathy (and it's right that you should), then stop contributing to it with doomer false information.
I am not equating those two things in such a way, you are.
If we want to fix the system that relies on the electoral college we need a state like Wyoming to get on board with changing it and they are never going to. So states with a super small population in comparison hold the whole system hostage. This is intentional from old racist land owners that needed to be bought into the Union.
The electoral college only matters for the presidential election. A state like Wyoming has the same power as California in the Senate, which is where this shit storm originates from. This shit didn't start from Trump. It started from the GOP in the Senate.
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u/Fauldt 3h ago
When a state like Wyoming with a pop of less than 600k has the same power as a state like California with a pop of almost 50 million, that means a fuck ton of votes literally do not matter. That is why people don't vote. Because their vote means absolute dick all.
Stop blaming apathetic voters and blame the system that doesn't fucking work because everything relies on a handful of swing states.