The Electoral College is the biggest gerrymander of them all
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:09:34 JST Thomas 🔭✨ -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:22:49 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @joesabin true, senate is an even bigger gerrymander
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joesabin (joesabin@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:22:50 JST joesabin @breiter @thomasfuchs Just being a state gets 3 EC votes, and two in the Senate. It's an outrageous left over mess from the founding.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 05:18:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @qubex the reason America still exists is that it has mostly ocean borders and is huge af, not because some voting system minutiae
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JJ (qubex@body.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 05:18:21 JST JJ @thomasfuchs I'm not an American and certainly not a constitutionalist, but keep in mind that the framers of the constitution had a problem to solve: to asynchronously magnify a potentially small difference in votes to a definitive mandate to govern. In hindsight, it generates some unpleasant distortions in today's polarised and synchronous world, but it was a robust mechanism that delivered a governing executive for several centuries. Don't be too harsh just because it deserves to be revisited.
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