re: #263 Nyet

Anybody wants to defend the EC?

Not necessarily defending the Electoral College, but the fundamental problem with “one man, one vote” in the US is that we don’t have a uniform national voting system. As long as states get to decide who’s on the voter register, where to place voting stations, etc., it’ll still be possible to manipulate things on a national level, and now you give all states controlled by one party an incentive to suppress the other.

(Not to mention that the very fact that the popular vote totals are adjusting this long after the election would be terrifying if were deciding based solely on popular vote and the vote were in fact close…)