Walz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’ - eviltoast

As governor he got his state signed on to the national popular vote interstate compact

    • variaatio@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Aka FPTP wasting votes in most USA states since someone thought it great idea to issue electors as state size blocks. When Constitution gives each state right to decide ways of apportioning their awarded electors.

      State starts awarding 3 democrat electors and 7 Republican electors and suddenly both parties care to entice voters to try to make it 2 and 8 or 4 and 6.

      Doesn’t even take removing the electoral college. Just state deciding “state wide FPTP is stupid”, we are going to start using something more proportional.

      Even in swing states it would still work, work better. Since there would be fight over is it 5 and 5 or 6 and 4.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Yeah, there is a laundry list of ways to improve the current system. It just sucks that so little progress is being made.