What if our votes were counted differently?
...until more Americans learn better math, I don't think we'll head towards anything less simple (not that the current primary methods are simple, but they are more the process of some kind of random evolution rather than an actual plan).
In a related article:
ReplyDelete"In US presidential elections every state (except New Mexico) has to end up labelled either Democrat or Republican, no matter how evenly divided the voters in that state might be. Each state sends to the Electoral College a number of delegates which is proportional to the population of the state. So far so good. But the discontinuous mind insists that all the delegates from a given state have to vote the same way. This ‘winner take all’ system was shown up in all its fatuousness in the 2000 election when there was a dead heat in Florida."
http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/1/28/the-tyranny-of-the-discontinuous-mind