zorq
Veteran Member
What incentive would the smaller states have to essentially abolish the electoral college and make their own citizens’ votes irrelevant?
The belief that democracy is better for everyone than an oligarchy based on 18th century elitists?
That the American people choosing the President is better than the partisans in state legislatures choosing a president for them, even when The People vote clearly and loudly against the partisan politician's choice?
How about that?
Tom
So that’s your pitch to the smaller states to make their citizens’ votes irrelevant? Well, at least you tried.
The irony in this post is painful. So Wyoming residents can only have influence in government when their vote is worth more than three times as much as a vote from California? It's triple power or "irrelevant?" That's a loony false dichotomy.
The system disenfranchises half the electorate as it is. State by state winner take all steals the influence from the minority party voters in each state and coopts it in favor of the majority party. As a conservative living in California, I would have expected you to understand this. The very fact that you are a conservative living in a disproportionately liberal state gives the liberals extra influence in national politics because they get to count you on the resident roles and the liberals earn extra votes in the electoral college. Well, the same is true for liberals living in Utah. I don't know who you marked on your ballot recently but even if you didn't vote at all, your actual vote went to Biden.
If you actually wanted to make the votes of people not irrelevant, you would let each person's vote actually count toward the total!
Furthermore, as was mentioned above, the interests of people who don't live in swing states are already totally ignored! Presidential candidates don't actually pander to voters in California OR Wyoming because their votes are pretty much already decided. That gives inordinate influence to voters in weird places like Nevada. Wouldn't you rather national politicians actually try to pitch plans and policies to the WHOLE COUNTRY instead of just a select few states that are just purple enough to warrant their interest? Conservative Voters in all these small red states are being ignored because their state is too red. Their voices are irrelevant right now because their vote is taken for granted.
If voters in small states, big states, ANY states actually want their voices to be heard they should choose to bypass the Electoral College, because right now, it is the choices of a few million special people who live in select states who have the real influence over national races. And YOU aren't one of them!