Electoral College elects The President. No other type of election works like that.
Okay, but at the moment (3 am EST) Trump is also leading by 4% of the total votes. The electoral college may be fucked up, but the society is more fucked up.
Gotta trickle down that colonial imperialism.
Eh. The local elections are pretty hard to find good information. Candidates and ballot measures.
It’s hard to even find any kind of real debate outside of their written statements, which seem extremely misleading.
Edit - but at least the vote tallying makes sense
Maybe they should advance to electoral university…
I mean, I understand why it exists but…fuuuuuck.
Why does it exist?
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Oh… like right now?
Not to mention first-past-the-post and superpacs
My county made elected positions all non partisan. The primary election selects the top two winners, who then go to a runoff in November if no one candidate gets moee than 50% of the vote. It’s solved most problems in local politics and elections since then have mostly selected level headed candidates. It’s awesome.
Yeah, our local ones are “nonpartisan” too, but that just means you have to get specific endorsements (and politics wonks can tell which endorsements are proxies for the local GOP and Dems).
