Vote Recount (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan)

[brandonc204]

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[Swirvin'Birds]

The extremely rural states like Wyoming have a minimum number of electors mandated by the constitution because if they were held to the same standard as California they would have zero electoral votes. There is no way to make the system completely fair in a country where the largest state has 65 times the population of the smallest.

The USA has never been a democracy. True democracy doesn't work. Otherwise we would just text vote our opinions to the government for everything.

The electoral college will, most likely, not change in our lifetime. 2/3 of the states would have to approve a change to the constitution. All of the lower population states will say no, because they will lose some major influence at the national level.

Agree. But states can split their electoral votes. In Maine the popular vote winner gets 2 votes and each district gets 1 vote for their popular vote winner for their 4 total votes.
Seems more of a representitive government to me...

[brandonc204]

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[Swirvin'Birds]

Yes, this would be nice to see. Completely disastrous for some of the big states though :D Could you imagine New York City not dominating all the electoral votes from New York. They would lose their damn minds.

Either way it forces the parties to campaign in areas they normally wouldn't as it puts more in play. You may get more republican votes in the cities but at the same time it puts many more democratic votes in red states in play as well. Many of these red states had 40%+ democrat vote that all went to republicans.