Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
by twblalock on Thursday August 22, 2019 @02:55AM
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Other democratic countries are doing just fine without an electoral college.
Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
by caseysoftware on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:28AM
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Most of which are Parliamentary systems which are very similar structurally.
In those cases, you don't directly elect a Prime Minister either. You elect an MP in little winner-take-all elections and then the party (or coalition) gets together and elect the PM from their own ranks.
It's not quite 1:1 with an Electoral College but it's not direct democracy either.
Which countries are direct democracies?
Right now, if an election system is "compromised" (electronically, corrupt officials, etc), it will affect that precinct, the local elections, possibly the state-wide races, and rarely the Presidential.
With a simple majority vote, a compromise anywhere in the system - adding or removing votes - impacts the system as a whole.