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Electoral College reforms ...
Posted on: August 2, 2024 at 10:18:11 CT
Fourth and Long MU
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Under our current electoral college rural communities are disenfranchised. Look at a county by county results map from previous election cycles and you can see that the major population centers (big cities) still control their respective states electoral votes.
Geographically even California and New York have more conservative counties than liberal, yet they don't collectively have the population to overcome the big cities/counties. This defeats the original purpose as to why our forefathers created the electoral college in the first place and what has led to our ever widening political divide.
Proposed remedies:
A. One electoral vote per county, nationwide. This would solve current geographic in balances. And restore the original intent of our forefathers.
B. Keep the current system in place but require all states to implement, county by county voting with one vote per county to determine the state's overall electoral vote. This also provides a voice for smaller rural areas within each state.
A quick look at our geographic voting history, shows geographically that the country is nearly 90% conservative, yet by population it's appropriately 50/50. As someone in the rural Midwest, I don't feel that we get a fair shake and that our country is controlled large population centers, primarily on the coasts.
Illinois is a local example of this disparity. Cook County (Metro-Chicago) controls the
entire state despite not being politically aligned with 90% of state's counties.
Regardless if my premise is right or wrong, it's hard to argue that it's not one of the reasons for our current ideologically divisions.
Geographically even California and New York have more conservative counties than liberal, yet they don't collectively have the population to overcome the big cities/counties. This defeats the original purpose as to why our forefathers created the electoral college in the first place and what has led to our ever widening political divide.
Proposed remedies:
A. One electoral vote per county, nationwide. This would solve current geographic in balances. And restore the original intent of our forefathers.
B. Keep the current system in place but require all states to implement, county by county voting with one vote per county to determine the state's overall electoral vote. This also provides a voice for smaller rural areas within each state.
A quick look at our geographic voting history, shows geographically that the country is nearly 90% conservative, yet by population it's appropriately 50/50. As someone in the rural Midwest, I don't feel that we get a fair shake and that our country is controlled large population centers, primarily on the coasts.
Illinois is a local example of this disparity. Cook County (Metro-Chicago) controls the
entire state despite not being politically aligned with 90% of state's counties.
Regardless if my premise is right or wrong, it's hard to argue that it's not one of the reasons for our current ideologically divisions.
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Electoral College reforms ... - Fourth and Long MU - 8/2 10:18:11
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