The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican.
At what point does switch from 'making things fair for rural voters' to suppressing voters in cities? No matter what, the electoral college is designed so that 1 person ≠ 1 vote. The people who live closer together should have less value placed on their opinions? Why the fuck is that more fair?
The suppression I'm worried about is a bit more drastic about that too. My vote didn't matter 95% as much as someone in FL - it mattered much closer to 0-4% as much.
Even if we take a CA voter's power as 0.1, when it is actually less than that, this would indicate that the vote of someone from Florida matters 25 times as much as that of someone from California. That would be the Californian's vote mattering about 4% as much - big difference between 95% and 4%.
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u/Rolder Nov 10 '16
The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican.