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What arguments would you make against abolishing the U.S. electoral college? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m actually helping someone write a paper along these lines, so I’m genuinely interested in the perspective of people who would disagree with a direct count or ranked choice or whatever. I am interested in what a real human being defending the current system would say.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is the correct answer to OPs question. What's the real, human, and arguably logical defense of a system that ignores the popular vote in a "democracy".

The idea is that you have to weight the system to ensure leaders have to pay attention to everyone, not just focus on winning NYC and LA and maybe a couple other big cities, completely ignoring anyone who lives outside a densely populated area.

Source: raised by a conservative who believes this very thing. Not saying I agree personally but I definitely grew up hearing this idea.