return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 days agoLarge Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral Collegewww.commondreams.orgexternal-linkmessage-square260fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down112
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minus-squareZaktor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 days agoThis doesn’t make the electoral college irrelevant, it just rebalances the votes per state so they’re closer to proportional. California Republicans and Texas Democrats are still disenfranchised even if their states get a lot more votes.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoYeah but that last hurdle takes a lot more to get over and in the meantime we’ve done something we should have anyways.
This doesn’t make the electoral college irrelevant, it just rebalances the votes per state so they’re closer to proportional. California Republicans and Texas Democrats are still disenfranchised even if their states get a lot more votes.
Yeah but that last hurdle takes a lot more to get over and in the meantime we’ve done something we should have anyways.