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Margo — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 01:07 PM)
It's obvious.
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Margo — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 01:15 PM)
The original poster is a sock account from a MAN who's an asshole as well as a dumbass. He just a gambling addict that wants to influence an election so he can place bets on the outcome. First he was betting on sports games. Then he was betting on how many times he could influence others to cause as many meltdowns as possible. Then he tried influencing The Grammy Awards, The Oscars and now the outcome of the future President of the USA.
He's a ****ing gambler. He's sick. He's an addict. He makes me sick.
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Margo — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 01:22 PM)
You'll understand eventually. And esspecially if you've ever had experience with people that have an addiction to gambling.
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Margo — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 01:10 PM)
Really? Look at your topic sentence. How dumb? Nobody in US History including its own Founding Fathers have ever thought such stupid nonsense. Not even the dumbest American citizens have ever thought that stupid nonsense.
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Chase — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 03:03 PM)
While I can't say that the EC is fraudulent, it is certainly broken, unfair, and unjust. It's an antiquated system based on a combination of the Founders' inexperience in the matter, distrust of leadership, and an ill-informed electorate. The system was thrown together in the name of compromise because Congress couldn't agree on any other system due to various camps being dead set in their ways.
One such camp was unwilling to allow Congress to elect the President for fear of loyalties and favours being leveraged to swing the election. The other primary camp was against letting the American people vote due to the virtual impossibility to get the needed information out to the people for them to make an informed and educated decision.
As I'm sure you are all aware, the EC, made of up a fixed number of electorates from each state, is formed every four years to vote for the President on behalf of the people they represent. While there is no serious issue with the EC on its face, the problem lies within the ratios of EC representatives to population per state.
In other words, California, with a population of 39.5 million people has a total of 55 EC representatives whereas Wyoming, with a population of 579 thousand has 3 EC representatives. This means there are 68.2 Californians per 1 Wyomingite, but there are only 18.3 Californian EC representatives per every 1 Wyomingite's EC representative. That means each Californian vote is worth approximately 27% of a Wyomingite vote.
The EC (and voting districts) should absolutely be abolished and replaced with a simple popular vote where votes are worth exactly the same from person to person and state to state. The systems for electing based on the popular vote are already in place as the individual states already count and report individual votes to the Federal Government. All that's needed is to elect based on that rather than on the votes of EC representatives who hold an unfair number of votes per population.
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— 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 03:13 PM)Unfortunately the GOP will never let the electoral college go because if abolished and replaced with a pure popular vote they would likely never win another general election.
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Chase — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 03:24 PM)
Agreed. They will dig in like ticks on this. The only thing the DNC can hope for is a majority in the House and Senate and a Democratic POTUS. Democrats don't get many opportunities where they hold all three and so, it should be addressed as soon as the next chance rolls around
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— 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 03:39 PM)They also claim a popular vote would cause big cities to decide elections despite the fact that the top 20 most populous U.S cities added together barely scrape 10% of the Nation’s population.
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Chase — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 03:52 PM)
You make a valid point about that. It shouldn't even be an argument, though. Under no circumstances should a person's vote be worth more or less than another person's vote just because of where they live. If the majority of a population wants something, that's just how it should be. "We the people" decide, not "We the few in number, but worth more in voting power people" decide.
Obviously, I lean left based on my political statements from previous threads, but there was a time when I was more right-leaning and even then, I was for the expungement of the EC. Fairness is a cold, hard, numbered fact in this case and no political ideology changes that.
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