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

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

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:47:44 +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 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. 
>>
> 
> Apples and oranges.  They are equal but the system does not
> give control to the voting majority. 


    And that is the problem. 

    What is the point of an election if
the loser wins?


>  It is designed that
> way.
> 
> The objective is to protect the power of the current
> minority.
> 

    The original "current minority" were slave owners.

    Not so current anymore.