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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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That doesn't sound like a benefit at all...
What doesn't? That rural states have more weight via the EC than they would in a popular vote? It's not a benefit to the country and citizens as a whole, but it is to those individual states.
A dictatorship is not a benefit to the country and citizens as a whole, but it is to those individual dictators, too...
Right. Which is why I stated in my original comment that I am in favor of a popular majority vote...
Edit: typo
Sorry for confusion, thought you were saying it had a benefit.
My country has Mixed Member Proportional, which means even minorities get some level of representation. I prefer it to winner-takes-all systems like what we had when I was a kid.