Ifreann wrote:Hoosier Counties wrote:The electoral college was established to provide and protect the voice of all states and the people within them in the national presidential election process. Left to just the popular vote it would only take five or six of the largest states to dictate to every other state as to who would be our next president. California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois currently would have more say and Wyoming, Vermont, Idaho, etc would have no voice. The EC provides equality among states in having political say in that process. As a historian, I find those that support the removal of the EC either have a political agenda in controlling that process and are willing to deny people in smaller populated states a voice, or are just ignorant in why it exists.
The whole idea of a national popular vote is that the people would have the voice, not any states. Where those people live is irrelevant, their votes would all count the same.Vassenor wrote:
So what other countries use an EC system?
The Vatican.
The Vatican also doesn't practice universal suffrage.