11-02-2004, 08:48 AM
Go Amendment 36! (Here in Colorado weâre trying to change the electoral college to a proportionate system and set a precedent)
The problem with the electoral college is disenfranchisement. If you donât vote with your stateâs majority, your vote has no value. You could be in a state of 5 million people, but if 2.6 million make a hairline majority and youâre not counted among them, youâre a nonentity for voting purposes.
It also fuels voter apathy. If you know your state is very partisan and always landslides to the party you donât want to vote for, why even bother to show up at the polls? All youâre doing is wasting the majorityâs time and space with your weightless, pointless, basically ignored protest vote.
The college does not reflect the will of the people. One person does not equal one vote. That is a problem in a sophisticated superpower touting itself as a representative democracy.
The problem with the electoral college is disenfranchisement. If you donât vote with your stateâs majority, your vote has no value. You could be in a state of 5 million people, but if 2.6 million make a hairline majority and youâre not counted among them, youâre a nonentity for voting purposes.
It also fuels voter apathy. If you know your state is very partisan and always landslides to the party you donât want to vote for, why even bother to show up at the polls? All youâre doing is wasting the majorityâs time and space with your weightless, pointless, basically ignored protest vote.
The college does not reflect the will of the people. One person does not equal one vote. That is a problem in a sophisticated superpower touting itself as a representative democracy.