You think laws matter to the privileged?
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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 weeks agoI believe the states responsible for those silly outcomes have since passed laws to prevent it happening again.
Could be wrong, but I listened to a podcast last week with an American professor who’s pretty much written the book, explaining the history of the Electoral College and how it really works. I’m sure he said those states since fixed those loopholes.
Either way, the damage is done today. Another four years of stupidity in charge.
Sc00ter@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is not correct. The electoral college is exactly as susceptible to giving the win to the person with fewer votes as it was in 2000 and 2016. It’s also not an issue that’s due to any state in particular and is not an issue that can be solved by individual state action. The NPVIC would fix it but requires the cooperation of many states and is not in effect, and has stalled pretty hard in recent years.
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 weeks ago
Nah - it’s at least partly correct.
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Faithless electors have never once affected the outcome of a US election.
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 weeks ago
Seriously - the whole thing is such a befuddling mess to us non-Americans.
How exactly can one win the popular vote but not the actual election? From the outside, the reporting I’ve seen always talks about the faithless elector problem (not in those words - just in describing the problems). Is it more to do with how many votes (electors) each state gets, based on population size?