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The electoral college gives way too much power to rural voters. DEI for chuds basically
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Anonymous 3w

The electoral college genuinely needs to go. All federal elections should be based on only the popular vote.

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Anonymous 3w

How?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

It weighs the voting power of like 10 ppl in the middle of nowhere as being the same as hundreds of thousands of people in a city

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Electoral votes are disproportional. The 576k population Wyoming has 15.79% of the votes of the 13m population Pennsylvania (3/19) despite only having less than 4.43% of the population (576k/13m). In this case, WY has nearly 4x the influence compared to PA relative to their populations.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

The scale is not anywhere near that skewed, but yes, one vote in Wyoming has around 3.7x the influence on Presidential elections as one vote in California assuming equal proportions of voters to total population.

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