DgarTo teach kids about democracy, I let them vote on dinner.
They picked pizza.
So I made bangers and mash because they don’t live in a swing state.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESaussies making fun of the pathetic archaic american voting system. i'm over here jealous as hell! we need ranked choice voting (what you weirdos call preferential voting) and even your educational outreach laughs at us (0:33) 😭
Honest Government Ad | Preferential Voting
Toot Ωncommon - SHUT 🇺🇸 DOWN@benroyce @dgar States are alotted presidential electors according to population. 48 states* then antidemocratically award ALL their electors to the candidate who wins the state, thereby disenfrancising all who didn’t vote for the winner. If all states split their electors according to state vote totals (*like ME & NE do) then the Electoral College would always match the popular vote AND no one state could reasonably throw the election (which was the ECs purpose) Its a simple fix really.
the EC was put in place by the founding fathers because they had a fear the populace would elect a demagogue, and the EC they thought could filter that out
ironically, the EC gave us a demagogue in trump. so the EC didn't even work as intended, and created the problem instead of preventing it
@benroyce @dgar If states awarded their electors as stated, Gore/Hillary win easily. There never woulda been tRump. I’ve run the vote totals myself. The founders left it up to the states how to award their electors. All but two phucked it up. The problem will never get fixed until people accept whats wrong and demand it. Or you can scream “Abolish the EC” as has been done every election since Abe to no effect. Rs hold the state majority and would control any Amendment if it did go forward anyway