• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I will never understand how the highest number of votes isn’t winning. Bucha cheatin ass bitches

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Well, it’s a complicated issue. Let’s assume there’s a state where all but an area of 10 blocks votes for candidate X. If that area happens to be split between several cities, the people living there are SOL as their vote is basically useless. Gerrymandering allows them to have a say in what goes on. But yes, as with everything, corruption ruins it.

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        2 months ago

        What? Without districts and zones, people vote individually. Majority wins. Pretty basic. Keep everything else the same, voting zones, districts, whatever, where people go, but count it as a PERSON no part of a preconfigured cheated group.

        Or just do mail in ballots with online tracking that it was received. Done. Majority wins. No electoral college or other bs.

        With all the shady shit the US does that other countries don’t seems like majority in US was designed to fail against money.

        This way it doesn’t matter that you live or moved to an opposing zone, you still vote and count towards your vote, not a small group.