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Ajaws24142822 t1_j2kar8t wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in You can make a difference in promoting democracy in Pennsylvania by hashtagbob60

Everyone’s vote already does count, eliminating the electoral college and creating a popular vote majority-rules state would make even less people’s votes count

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[deleted] t1_j2kv9fq wrote

If you are a voter in Delaware, then sure, your vote will count less. Currently they get 1 electoral vote per 333,000 residents. However, if you are in Texas, you get 1 vote per every 718,000 residents. So residents in Texas would have their vote count more whereas residents of Delaware would have their vote count less. Overall though, going by popular vote for presidential elections is a much more fair, especially for residents of populous states.

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Ajaws24142822 t1_j2lidao wrote

So the basic cope now is that my vote already doesn’t matter, so I should get rid of the only safeguard making sure I have a voice to make it matter even less because the entire country is gonna be controlled by California and New York?

So rather than have multiple swing states we should just have urban population centers control the executive branch?

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