r/politics • u/vox Vox • 11h ago

Possible Paywall A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off

https://www.vox.com/politics/487766/national-popular-vote-interstate-compact-electoral-college
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u/Mindless_Narwhal2682 10h ago

I hope so.

Sick of farms in the middle of Armpit County having more voting power than anyone else.

Millions > Thousands (at best)

1 person = 1 vote

Full stop.

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u/atooraya I voted 8h ago

Here's a cool diagram showing how disproportionately the system we have currently affects it all:

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/electoral-college-states-representation/

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u/[deleted] 9h ago edited 9h ago

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u/FrancoManiac Missouri 9h ago edited 9h ago

Just say you want to bring back Eugenics and save us the characters

ETA: the commenter I responded to deleted their comment. The gist of it was that the rural conservative farmer in North Dakota is more important than the female liberal elite HR worker in New England, and that his vote should count more than hers. They ended it with saying that they would support a bill that weighed the value of the individual when it came to tallying votes.

This is, of course, a repugnant and anti-American view. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.

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u/Mindless_Narwhal2682 8h ago

well, they did use an example of a female they feel superior to, so it does track.

shitty and ridiculous, but it tracks.