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If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016 (brilliantmaps.com)

submitted 3 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To give a disproportionate amount of voting power to rural areas.

People look at a map and go "Oh my god look how much square footage is red" and can't comprehend the population density of large cities, so feel they are under represented.

Same principle as two Senators per state, and Congressmen are supposed to balance that out by representing population, until the artificial cap on number of Congressman.

Between that, and the insane gerrymandering, Red rural votes are just weighed higher than Blue urban votes.

[–] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

That isn't why it existed in the first place but it is part of why it still exists today. Afaik nobody has made a serious effort to get rid of it but it's time. The electoral college needs to go