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by munk-a on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:10PM
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Regarding research - hrm, not seeing super much out there but societies have evolved (or devolved if you care) into democracies pretty reliably and democratization seems to be a general government trend.
I don't disagree on the point of voting - it's not technically a direct election of the president. But we're still voting to impact the presidential election and my vote counts more toward that decision than my friend in WA.
Curious claim. Has there been any research that shows states are less likely to fail with universal suffrage?
> When it comes to voting for president, my vote as a Vermonter is objectively worth 2.63 times as much as my friend from Washington
See, that’s the confusion. You’re not voting for president directly. You’re voting for who you want your electoral college to vote for. In most states if you’re on the losing side of the vote in your state, your presidential vote literally means nothing.
Your individual vote in Vermont is not “worth more” than your friend’s vote in Washington because your both just voting in state level decisions about who the college should vote for.
The legitimate claim is about the number of delegates and (arguably much more important) the number of house representatives each state is getting.
Reiterated, there isn’t a lack of 1 person 1 vote equivalence in any elections I know of in the US (e.g. landowners don’t get extra votes). There are just elections people think are direct democracy when they are far from it.