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Post by Assbong420 ~The Weeder~ on Nov 30, 2015 11:16:24 GMT
context: our pm elections ren't actually pm elections. there's always dudes campaigning for pm but the vote doesn't elect the pm, it elects the parties that will ocupy the parliament, and then the president will nominate a pm that the majority of the parliament must approve (which has always been one of the politicians campaigning, and until these elections it was always someone from the winning party, the leader)
people keep calling them "the government elections" but you don't pick a government. but the vote itself says "party a, b or c", so there's no lie, there's just an overall misunderstanding of the election process
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Post by 410757864530 DEAD COPS on Nov 30, 2015 11:47:14 GMT
it says the guy
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Post by risbolla on Nov 30, 2015 13:09:14 GMT
uhhh why to even vote for partys,,,,,,,why cant u just vote on case by case with uh like a checklist ?? then u would have a vote that reprisent ur own views instead of some partys views
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Post by 410757864530 DEAD COPS on Nov 30, 2015 15:31:38 GMT
that's basically what it is
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Post by Benjaman on Nov 30, 2015 18:32:34 GMT
it will give the name of the duo (so, obama/biden), where they hold office currently, as well as the party they represent
its true that the electoral college is lame, whats funny is that if, lets say, the US was actually four states and two of those states had 10 people and the other two had 50-
the two big states would get, lets say, five electoral votes and the small ones would get one electoral vote
so if the democrats get 90% of the vote in the two little states and 40% in the big states that means 9/10 + 9/10 + 20/50 + 20/50 = 58 out of 120 people vote democrat
but that means the split is 62/58, very close to 50/50. and yet, with the electoral college the winner-takes-all system would give the 10 electoral votes to the republicans and only 2 to the democrats- making it a much larger disparity
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Post by Benjaman on Nov 30, 2015 18:35:31 GMT
now consider the huge variation in population among the states... also, that you can win the plurality but not the majority (so, republicans get lets say 45%, the democrats 40%, and the other rabble get 15%)
this means there are more people that DIDNT vote for the president than did
it also used to be that the vice president was the runner up of the election but they axed that
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Post by Benjaman on Nov 30, 2015 18:40:09 GMT
also as for people not voting for who they should like tempest mentioned- this is called a "faithless elector" and since 1950 there has been one case of someone picking a COMPLETE different party. other than that, there were two moves from a republican vote to a third party vote, two that changed the person but not the party, one person who protested by not voting, and one person that accidentally voted for the wrong guy
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Post by pubes on Nov 30, 2015 19:00:38 GMT
it also used to be that the vice president was the runner up of the election but they axed that shit this sounds hilarious
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Post by Assbong420 ~The Weeder~ on Nov 30, 2015 22:09:27 GMT
i thought that the number of people /state in the electoral college was determined by the state's population proportionally, relative to the whole country
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Post by Benjaman on Nov 30, 2015 23:47:55 GMT
i thought that the number of people /state in the electoral college was determined by the state's population proportionally, relative to the whole country uhh it SORT of is, but my example still stands when comparing the big boy states like texas and cali with the boring or little ones especially. its just a weird thing to do in theory, i dont know why we still do (thats not true, i know its because we are stubborn and lazy)
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Post by Tempest on Nov 30, 2015 23:53:40 GMT
for example there is no point in me voting for bernie sanders because i live in alaska which only has (i think) two electoral votes and the state is like 98% republican
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Post by Patty O'Furniture on Dec 1, 2015 0:42:03 GMT
theres no point in you voting anyway because you have to trek through 5km of snow to get to your shitty voting igloo
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Post by Alienator on Dec 1, 2015 0:43:15 GMT
you live in Alaska? that's cool I guess...
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Post by Alienator on Dec 1, 2015 0:45:57 GMT
Do you ever like to hike out to an abandoned bus without a map and stay there until you die of starvation?
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Post by Benjaman on Dec 1, 2015 1:08:39 GMT
xD ep1c
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