• wolfpack86@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    This will lead to the majority of the state getting full say and suppressing minority views. This can be political, racial, etc.

    California has a large Republican population. If it goes state wide they get zero voice as the full state will go blue.

    These days I’m kinda fine with that, but in principle this is wrong. The same suppression logic can be spread to ethnic groups, etc.

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      11 days ago

      From reading the comments of others I’ll say it seems like I’m pretty uninformed about how the actual process works. But what i meant was that if there are 6 electoral votes and each candidate wins 50% if the votes in the state then they both get 3 electrical votes. If there are 8 electoral votes and someone wins 27% if the vote they get 2 votes, not all or nothing