re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am for keeping the EC but

1) amending it so that it represents only the population and not the congressional seats of each state and

2) only having it kick in as a backup if neither candidate gets an uncontestable majority of the popular vote

that would not have affected the outcomes of 2000 or 2016, but it would make the EC more representative and balanced.

But as long as the Dems draw their support from states with densely populated rural areas and the GOP from the less populated states, the latter will not want to change it.

Fuck the EC. It makes some people’s votes more important than others, and leads the campaigns to spend all their time in fewer than 1/5 of the states.