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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by komali2 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:41PM (#20762141)
Reward how? The electoral college system determines the election of president. How does one state being more populated matter? Votes are distributed equally across all citizens.
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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by TylerE on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:59PM (#20762302)
No they aren't, that's the whole problem!

http://theconversation.com/whose-votes-count-the-least-in-th...

Look at the huge disparity towards small rural states. This is bad, but it's even worse because due to the effect of the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 (https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/Th...) the number of Represenatives has been fixed at 435 for almost 100 years, and since the smallest number of electoral votes a state can have is 3, this makes the small states even more overpowered than they would be in a "fair" electoral college system.

Why should a voter in Wyoming have 3.71x as much weight (effectively) as mine does a North Carolinian?

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by komali2 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:26PM (#20763025)
Sorry, I meant in a universal vote program, i.e if there's no electoral college.
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