Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "GOP Plans To Rig 2024 Election With This Loophole" video.

@Assembled-Saints Every vote doesn't count now. Campaigns only go to swing states. Pennsylvania got most of the attention in this election. We appreciate it, but there are four states with bigger electoral hauls. For most of the country, the Presidential election doesn't exist.
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@digitalperson108 The Electoral College exists for two reasons: 1) the Founders didn't trust the people to decide (See also: United States Senate) 2) the slaveholders wanted to be able to use slaves (who they thought of as subhuman except when it came to raping the women to get more property) to leverage greater power. That being said, let's talk about its rarely spoken effect on democracy: it encourages lower vote turnout. This is because the number of electoral votes is fixed, and there are times when fewer people vote in states with more say. Not a lower percentage, fewer people. Here are some examples: Maine (4 EV): 819,461 total votes New Hampshire (4 EV): 806,182 total votes West Virginia (5 EV): 794,731 total votes Oregon (7 EV): 2,374,321 total votes Kentucky (8 EV): 2,136,768 total votes Minnesota (10 EV): 3,277,171 total votes Wisconsin (10 EV): 3,298,041 total votes Tennessee (11 EV): 3,053,851 total votes So, tell me, how is this fair again? I get that you are trying to pretty up opposing democracy, but tell me why states where fewer people voted should get a larger absolute say in who gets elected.
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@lynnehanses8474 Even that's not true, because margins still matter in a popular vote. The states the race goes to now are the biggest close states. Most of the attention went to Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan, and the only reason it didn't go to Texas as much is because Democrats didn't think there was a chance until pretty late in the game. I guarantee that Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania will get the lion's share of attention next time. Losing Wyoming by 20 instead of 30-40 and doing similarly in other states adds up.
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