• Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    The president isn’t voted on as part of the representatives, the office of the president is a separate vote and is supposed to be a direct vote. But the number of electors for each state has not kept up with each state’s population, which has fucked up the power of presidential votes.

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        The electors only exist because it made it possible to hold a vote across a large nation in a time when horses were the fastest mode of communication. And each elector was supposed to carry the results of the same number of voters.

        But the country has grown, with some states growing in population much faster than others. Yet the number of electors remains unchanged. Not to mention electors are now completely unnecessary as we have fast and reliable communication methods.

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          11 months ago

          You can disagree with the electoral college and still recognize that electors are literally representatives.

          This is basic civics.

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            11 months ago

            But they aren’t really, they’re just vote messengers, they aren’t on capital hill making laws and advocating for their constituents.

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              11 months ago

              All representatives are “vote messengers.” That’s why we call them representatives.

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                I would disagree that senators and congressmen are just vote messengers. They run on active platforms, respond to changes in their constituencies (hopefully), deal with new issues as they arise.

                Electors literally just ferry the states vote to Washington, that’s it and job done. Representatives continually represent the will of their constituents through multiple years, or at least that’s what they are supposed to do.

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                  respond to changes in their constituencies

                  Yes. This is being a representative.