Electoral College Decision Tree

Re:Electoral College Decision Tree by bryanlarsen on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:05PM (#24871574)

> The electoral college is designed (from the start) to prevent the larger, more populous states from dominating the country. Seems to be working as designed. And doing a good job as a system.

Not really. The college disenfranchises Wyoming Democrats and California Republicans a similar amount.

It's the Senate that protects smaller states, since each state gets two senators.

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Re:Electoral College Decision Tree by dragonwriter on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:07PM (#24871597)

> The college disenfranchises Wyoming Democrats and California Republicans a similar amount.

No, the States of California and Wisconsin do that; the Constitution and the design of the electoral college do not mandate winner-take-all allocation, and not all states choose to do that.

(The EC structurally incentivizes it, perhaps, in the same way that it definitely incentivizes doing everything that the rest of the Constitutiona and laws let you get away with to more literally disenfranchise people by preventing them from being eligible or practically able to vote at all, but it doesn't actually do either of those things, it leaves it to the states to choose to do them or not.)

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