From: cubby77267@aol.com
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:48:03 GMT, Greg Heilers
wrote:
>Derek A. Bill wrote:
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>
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>> Here at home, without national standards for voting and counting, the
>> results will be suspect if they are close, and the popular vote and the
>> electoral vote will again be out of synch. Meanwhile, apparently
>> there's some moral justification for throwing non-Republican voter
>> registration cards into the dumpster. Seems to me that preventing a
>> person from voting is akin to re-enslaving them, but I suppose the
>> strict constructionists would be happy enough to see only 3/5 of the
>> blacks' votes counted, returning us to those days when a black man only
>> counted for 3/5 anyway.
>
>> Derek
>
>It is the Electoral College system which *prevents* such things from
>happening.
Actually, the exact opposite is true. The Electoral College by design
gives voters in small states a greater say in who gets elected than
those from the larger states.
A state such as Alaska, for example, has approximately 700,000
citizens yet they have 3 electoral votes.
California on the other hand with approximately 34,441,000 citizens
and has 55 electoral votes.
What that means is that every Alaskan who votes gets about 1/233,333
of a say in who gets elected but Californians only get 1/626,200 of
one. So as far as the Electoral College is concerned an Alaskan gets
three times the say in who gets chosen than does a Californian.
Furthermore, since each state is winner take all, the candidates spend
the lions share of their time in those states which are competitive
which means that Presidential candidates will spend more time in Reno,
NV than they will in NY, NY.
Loki
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