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   joesabin (joesabin@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:22:50 JST joesabin

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
   • Brian Reiter

   @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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     JJ (qubex@body.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 05:18:21 JST JJ

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @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.