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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I'm no statistician but that doesn't even seem possible. If you increase the value of everyone's vote... wouldn't everyone's vote still have equal value?
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Yes, the electoral college attempts to increase the value of the vote of people who live in rural areas. This is to counteract the power of the vote in urban areas. Urban areas always get the attention during a presidential election. This is because that is where the most votes is. The electorals attempt to countact this slightly though I don't think they do a very good job of it. Let's face it when was the last time that South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, etc mattered in a presidential race?
The only problem I see with the electorals is the all or nothing assignment of them, I really think it should be proportional across the country. In order to do this effectively though the number of electorals for each state would have to be increased by something like a factor of 10.