Originally Posted by
Mitsu3000gt
What's funny is that Democrats would probably win almost every election if every American citizen had an equal weight to their vote, or if they had an objectively perfect voting system like ranked choice. I am pretty sure each Republican president in the last 20 years (and perhaps longer) has lost the popular vote but won due to gerrymandering and the electoral college.
The Dems certainly aren't innocent, it's just that the GOP is 10X worse for doing shady/illegal things like blatant voter suppression and blocking every single mutually beneficial bill that has ever come across their desk that had to do with voter security, ranked choice voting, etc. Just look at what happened when Trump installed his own guy as head of the USPS lol. Mail-in ballots just got a whole lot more questionable.
The electoral college is unbelievably stupid, and is also why candidates only bother campaigning in a handful of battleground states because there's only a few that even matter for a victory. Unfortunately it would require an amendment to the constitution to change.
To me, the most eye opening thing is that any mutually beneficial bill that promotes fair elections (for BOTH sides) or increased election security, the Republicans want nothing to do with. That pretty much says it all haha.
I hope whoever the next president is (after Trump) is able to increase election security and get rid of some of the BS like gerrymandering, but they'll be on global clean-up duty for at least half their term haha.
As an outsider this is all very entertaining, but for the majority of Americans it's probably quite frustrating.
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