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Proud Public Servant

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4. Yes, except you're not the benefactor: your vote counts less

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 12:34 PM

Oct 2012

As a Floridian, you get one electoral vote for ever 654,000 residents. Your Wyoming counterpart gets 3 electoral votes for his states 564,000 residents. Thus, while your state's voites count more in the EC than Wyoming's, your vote actually counts less, since your state gets significantly fewer electoral votes per person.

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The ironic thing about the Electoral College. [View all] Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 OP

The ironic thing about the EC is that stopbush Oct 2012 #1

Actually your vote counts the same Peregrine Oct 2012 #2

Electors who, in most circumstances, are pledged to abide by their state's popular vote. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #13

Florida has 19 Million People, Wyoming has one half a million people 1-Old-Man Oct 2012 #3

that's the way I look at it d_r Oct 2012 #6

Yes, except you're not the benefactor: your vote counts less Proud Public Servant Oct 2012 #4

So doesn't the Senate also violate the Equal Protection Clause? Nye Bevan Oct 2012 #5

No, you have it backward. Pab Sungenis Oct 2012 #7

Thanks--didn't think of it that way before. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #12

It is past time to get rid of the Electoral College Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #8

Do you think it is guardian Oct 2012 #14

No Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #15

Different situation Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #16

Generally, a specific constitutional provision trumps Hosnon Oct 2012 #9

It gets worse if the electoral vote is tied Retrograde Oct 2012 #10

The ironic thing about our entire electoral system is that it was both the first and worst devised. Egalitarian Thug Oct 2012 #11

Sorry, you have it exactly the wrong way around. JackRiddler Oct 2012 #17