RE: 2020 US election - It Came from Washington DC
11-05-2020, 09:07 PM (This post was last modified: 11-05-2020, 09:19 PM by Dartz.)
11-05-2020, 09:07 PM (This post was last modified: 11-05-2020, 09:19 PM by Dartz.)
The idea behind the electoral college is sound - it is supposed to stop the big states dominating.
The winner-takes-all implimentation almost everyone has settled on is fairly bollocks though. It makes a few states super important. It also means you can get a result way out of line of the popular vote and you can only do that so many times, or to such a degree, before you risk public ructions.
Surely a few clever 'safe' states might consider to earn themselves some extra promises by offering to split the vote in proportion.
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We use a PR system for our presidency, with candidates proposed by a mix of local authority and political party nominations. It's a lot more stable.
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Has there ever been a faithless elector? Aren't these just a formality?
It's amusing. The desire for, and fear of, faithless electors trades hands depending on whose in the lead.
EDIT: Oh wow - it's actually reasonably common. Mostly as a protest of some sort rather than actually overturning the result.
The winner-takes-all implimentation almost everyone has settled on is fairly bollocks though. It makes a few states super important. It also means you can get a result way out of line of the popular vote and you can only do that so many times, or to such a degree, before you risk public ructions.
Surely a few clever 'safe' states might consider to earn themselves some extra promises by offering to split the vote in proportion.
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We use a PR system for our presidency, with candidates proposed by a mix of local authority and political party nominations. It's a lot more stable.
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Has there ever been a faithless elector? Aren't these just a formality?
It's amusing. The desire for, and fear of, faithless electors trades hands depending on whose in the lead.
EDIT: Oh wow - it's actually reasonably common. Mostly as a protest of some sort rather than actually overturning the result.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.