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isn t the electoral college outdated now that they can count all the peoples votes?
they could not always count the popular vote and now they can shouldn't it be one person one vote = majority wins?
if 49% of people in a "large" state voted for a person, all electoral college votes go for the other person. so if 99% of all the small states voted the same as the other 49% then that person would have the majority of the popular vote and they should win. with the electoral college this may not happen, shouldn't the majority of the popular vote deceid?
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- -j.Lv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes. There is no good reason that someone in Wyoming should get a "better" vote than someone in California.
One person, one vote. No matter where they live.
- Anonymous4 years ago
The electoral college is not about making the votes easier to count,
It is about making sure that a huge majority in New york does not silence the voices of the people in Kansas.
It makes it so the president is elected by the people of the Several States, not the People of the country.
If you take away the electoral collefge, then the candidates will ignore the states that are close, and concentrate on the states where they have big majorities, trying to make them bigger.
If I can turn a 60-40 lead in California into a 70-30 win, that is worth ten smaller states won narrowly, if there was no electoral college./ With the electoral college, a 51-49 win is worth the same as a 70-30 onee.
- ?Lv 74 years ago
No,it has nothing to do with being able to count votes. The purpose was to keep a few states with large populations to be able to control the government and that is just as important now as it was originally. It's the same reason that each state has 2 senators regardless of population.
- scott bLv 74 years ago
They could always count people's votes. That's not why we have the electoral college.
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- Spock (rhp)Lv 74 years ago
no. the small states still do not want to be at the voting mercy of the large states, which was the primary reason for the compromise which created the EC.
Source(s): grampa - Anonymous4 years ago
Are you ignorant about this simple concept the Founding Fathers put in place across America?
I guess you'll be OK if we just let NY, LA, Chi, Philly, ATL, Miami, SFO, etc... who should be President.
Geez!!!
- u_bin_calledLv 74 years ago
Not as outdated as whatever delivery method seems to be used for basic civics in schools these days.... no...
- jeeper_peeper321Lv 74 years ago
well maybe we need a constitutional convention again
but remember, republicans control the house and senate and the majority of the state legislatures
so it will be republicans rewriting the new constitution
not you liberals
- Anonymous4 years ago
you'd have like 3 big cities electing the POTUS
