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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by iainmerrick on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:08AM (#42060046)
You're confusing the electoral college with the Senate. In the electoral college, the states are weighted by population. It's a flawed system, but it's not "each state having an equal say".
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by wrasee on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:46AM (#42060552)
But even then the weighting is _very_ uneven. The number of votes per elector can vary wildly by state, by as much as some small whole multiple. So the “weight” of one vote in one state can be say, four times that of another state.

It’s amazing to me that this can stand and efforts to change never seem to get very far.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:51AM (#42062268)
My bad, I thought it was massively unbalanced in favor of flyover states vs population centers.