(12-14-2016, 12:56 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-14-2016, 08:50 AM)radind Wrote: The election is not over yet.If this election is not overturned, then I doubt one will ever be. In other words, the EC is useless as an institution. Worse, it tilts the power to small states (typically rural) at the expense of the larger ones. Individual California voters are much less powerful than individual voters from Wyoming. In fact, each Wyoming elector represents 195 thousand people and each California elector represents 711 thousand, for a ratio of 3.65:1.
That is the point, to prevent smaller states being completely swamped out.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises