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Originally Posted by justafan
Every democratic country had voting. Your vote counts toward the new leader. USA, has a strange system, even could be called outdated. I think they need to get rid of the antiquated 'electoral' system and let every vote count. Popular vote.
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I actually don't think we need to entirely do away with the electoral college system, it does to an extent level the playing field between heavily populated urban areas and less populated rural ones, but as of right now, it pushes past "even" and makes rural votes more important than urban votes.
Rather than scrap the entire electoral college, I'd be in favor of just killing the "winner takes all" idea regarding electoral votes. Trump won Pennsylvania, for example, with 48.8% of the vote to Clinton's 47.6%. As the current system is, Trump wins all 20 electoral votes, despite narrowly edging out Clinton. If the system was more accurate, Trump would get 10, Clinton 9, and Gary Johnson would've gotten 1. California goes from 55 to Clinton to 34 Clinton, 18 Trump, Johnson gets 1. (Obviously this would need some tinkering, that leaves 2 votes on the table because of percentages)
Broken down that way, you get a far more accurate system, and it doesn't blow up the entire process.