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re: Why don’t states use an electoral college style system for elections?
Posted on 11/11/22 at 11:22 am to OGtigerfan87
Posted on 11/11/22 at 11:22 am to OGtigerfan87
quote:Why? The US includes four states that would be among the 20-largest economies in the world, if they were independent nations. The populations of those four states are also quite large-enough for a federal system of some sort. Geographically alone, you could perhaps argue that New York or Florida is too small, but I think that even THAT is a losing argument.
I agree it makes no sense on a state level and really anybody advocating for it on a state level are just butt hurt that they are losing elections
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Posted on 11/11/22 at 11:25 am to Tmcgin
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Because Trump idiots will riot if it does not go their way??
Do you people project EVERYTHING?
Posted on 11/11/22 at 11:26 am to lsu777
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so nola doesnt get to improse its values on the rest of the state.
Maybe the rest of the state needs to grow in population then.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 11:30 am to weagle99
A lot of states used to do this, but those practices were deemed illegal by the voting rights act as these schemes tended to dilute minority voting power. It resulted in all state houses having their districts be determined by population with no room for regionism. I always found this incredibly asinine as our own federal legislative branch has two houses, one apportioned by population and the other purely geographical.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 11:33 am to samson73103
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If states used an electoral system, Democrats would never win an election outside of San Francisco, NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 11:43 am to kingbob
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A lot of states used to do this, but those practices were deemed illegal by the voting rights act as these schemes tended to dilute minority voting power.
In the case of GA's unit system, it make the urban areas almost powerless because of the amount of rural counties in the state.
This post was edited on 11/11/22 at 11:46 am
Posted on 11/11/22 at 12:12 pm to mtntiger
It is a State's rights issue.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 12:20 pm to weagle99
Simply put, the States hold preeminence over the counties which were created as subdivisions of the various states. The States, however, are NOT subdivisions of the Federal Government despite what common current political culture would have you believe.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 12:24 pm to weagle99
Because of gerrymandering
Posted on 11/11/22 at 12:25 pm to weagle99
Counties are part of the state. Not a separately recognized sovereign state.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 1:01 pm to Swamp Angel
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the States hold preeminence over the counties which were created as subdivisions of the various states.
Also, the EC has some basis in population via using the # of House Reps as the predominant measure of EC votes.
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