Comments on: How The U.S. Presidential Election Works http://coedmagazine.com/2008/07/31/how-the-us-presidential-election-works/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:11:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Phil http://coedmagazine.com/2008/07/31/how-the-us-presidential-election-works/comment-page-1/#comment-2056 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:25:49 +0000 http://www.coedmagazine.com/?p=12787#comment-2056 I read this in a book when I was in 8th grade and I still remember how this work. Too bad they're still some uneducated people.

]]> By: Benjamin http://coedmagazine.com/2008/07/31/how-the-us-presidential-election-works/comment-page-1/#comment-2055 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:16:15 +0000 http://www.coedmagazine.com/?p=12787#comment-2055 To all those that didn't know how this worked:

Isn't it fucking retarded? The electoral college system infuriates me. First off, in this day and age, it would be way EASIER and more democratic to just count the popular vote.

What's more, the way they determine the number of electors (by adding the two senators to the number of representatives) means that vote of a person in one state is more valuable than that of another. More precisely, voters in states with smaller populations get more weight placed on their vote than states like California.

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