15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by zaroth on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:00PM (#20762310)

But this proves the point.

The issue you are having at the state level is a dominant majority makes the views of the minority irrelevant.

And to be clear, the EC does not disenfranchise all the voters in states like CA, just the minority voters.

This is actually precisely what the Senate and the Electoral College is designed to mitigate.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by chillwaves on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:22PM (#20762538)

it invalidates all voters. Overvotes are a thing. You can have 90% of CA vote against a candidate and it won't mean anything more than 51% voting against.

So roughly half of the votes in all non competitive states do not count.

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