[Braden]

Originally Posted by Maru

The amount of electoral votes is based on population (ie. Census data). Alaska only has 3, whereas Texas has 38... the system is actually quite fair, because voting power is based on the amount of ppl... sostates can decide how those votes are decided... usually county-by-county... whereas if we went by individual votes, then states with large populations would have more voting power than states w smaller pops.. so their voice matters... Hillary didnt win bc she didnt campaign enough in Midwest iirc, so completely ignored that part of the electorate... anyway, this is the reason for the system we have, is to give states equal voice in elections. It would be easy to tip elections otherwise by catering to large pop areas...

I'd be interested to know what you think of people who find the electoral college outdated? A lot of people demand for the popular vote to be the ideal system, but that seems to be the answer when people are unhappy with the final result and the popular vote puts one of the candidates ahead despite the other winning. The electoral college does seem the fairest way to structure it, though.