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

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
> 
> 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?

You don't make the rules.
> 
> 
> >  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. 

Dumb refute. Try again. 



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