“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming

Re:“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming by jfk13 on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @09:56AM (#18399499)

> It's absolutely insane and undemocratic for this to keep happening almost every election:

> https://preview.redd.it/lyvqks420vw11.jpg?width=949&auto=web....

> If this isn't a broken system, I don't know what is. This is not the "voice of the people" being heard.

If that graphic were for the House rather than the Senate, it would be more persuasive. The Senate is (by design) not about representation directly in proportion to population.

It may be debatable whether the Senate model of equal representation for each state is appropriate, but that's a different issue than changing the FPTP voting system.

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Re:“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming by masonic on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:10PM (#18412076)

Beyond that, the data is unsourced, and given that it thinks there are 92 (rather than 100) Senators, is suspect.

Also, raw vote counts are meaningless because the most populous states are dual-Democrat states, excluding Texas.

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