Re: Why the electoral college is manifestly and obviously wrong and unjust

Attila <[email protected]> wrote in 
news:[email protected]:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:59:08 +0000, Mitchell Holman
> <[email protected]> in alt.atheism with message-id
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>Attila <[email protected]> wrote in 
>>news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:19:03 +0000, Mitchell Holman
>>> <[email protected]> in alt.atheism with message-id
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>Governor Swill <[email protected]> wrote in 
>>>>news:[email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:44:46 -0400, Attila
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>Each region elects it's own representative and the major
>>>>>>population centers cannot dictate who the governor,
>>>>>>Senators, or Representatives are for smaller states,
>>>>>>Everyone has a voice.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then why do smaller states get to dictate to population centers who
>>>>> gets elected to those offices?
>>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Exactly. Voters in eastern Washington and
>>>>eastern Oregon bitch loudly about how their 
>>>>state politics are dominated by a few coastal
>>>>cities but no one is proposing an EC.  
>>> 
>>> It would be impractical to implement a county by county EC
>>> system for a state.  One state cannot control the national
>>> election.
>>
>>
>>    It is impractical to implement 
>>an EC anywhere. The whole idea is 
>>violation of one-man-one-vote
>>democracy. 
> 
> No, it isn't.  Each person still has one vote.  We do not
> have a democratic system allowing direct vote totals to
> elect the President.


     If ballots from state X are given 
more weight than ballots from state Y
then they are per se not equal.