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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by ASalazarMX on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:54PM (#25366482)
This is the inevitable ruckus as more people realize that USA is a rigged democracy, and lose trust in the electoral system.

A plain and transparent democracy would be "everybody votes, the candidate with more votes wins". Instead USA has the electoral college (what for? it has to vote the same as its citizens), winning by districts (what for? districts only exist to allow gerrymandering), and vote by mail without strict controls.

I bet fewer people would complain if the system wasn't so evidently made for gaming numbers.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by belorn on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:16PM (#25367594)
It would be much similar to other nations if instead of an electoral college, people would just vote for senate seats. The senate then vote on a senate president who then becomes the leader of the nation.

In order to not give small states too much power they then could do as the EU parliament and give seats based on degressive proportionality.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by sdwa on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:54PM (#25367322)
Ironically the Electoral College was designed in part to protect against populist lunatics like Trump, but it's he who has benefited from it.
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