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Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by SahAssar on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:54PM (#21868607)
But the system (regardless of if you call it "points" or "an actual vote") means that one candidate could get 78% of the popular vote and still loose as discussed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k (it talks about how it's possible to win the electoral college with only 22% of the popular vote).

I don't think that can be called a fair "actual vote".

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Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation... by SkyBelow on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:26AM (#21883975)
Can you give me the criteria for being 'fair'?

To me, the vote seems fair because it was the conditions to form the USA, and the USA has had centuries to change it but has chosen not to. At least, it is as fair as a vote that requires 'citizenship' to count, given that lack of citizenship doesn't stop one form being directly impacted by the decisions of the President.

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