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[Ostfriese]

Originally Posted by NefariousKoel

The electoral system is working just fine.

Is it? I've been told that the electoral system allows someone to become president even if his opponent received more votes.

[NefariousKoel]

Originally Posted by Ostfriese

Is it? I've been told that the electoral system allows someone to become president even if his opponent received more votes.

That has happened to candidates from both parties in the past.

Of course, the system doesn't use overall numbers. The populations in individual states decide the state's standing, not just the biggest population centers.

I don't expect everyone to understand the reasoning behind the electoral system, some just don't get that which I mentioned previously. I can't say the ideals behind in any more plainly than I already have. *shrug*

We're getting a little off-topic here. My fault for picking this subject out of a previous long post.

[OddjobXL]

Clearly I'm not the scholar you are Koel, but I seem to recall a little issue of taxation without representation being the primary rational for our revolution. If my vote is worth proportionately less than someone else's vote even if I'm paying the same amount of taxes, well, you do the math.

That said, I've already agreed with you in my previous post that jiggering around with the electoral college, at least in this respect, would be a bad idea.