(03-26-2019, 05:40 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(03-26-2019, 05:37 PM)mikesez Wrote: 17% of New York city's population adds up to between 3 and 4 million people. What was your point about them?

California alone has 40 million people. Assuming 30 million of those people are democrats, that is 25% of the overall vote going to the democratic candidate out of a pool of 125M active voters.

No thanks. the EC works just fine and dandy.

California does have about 40 million people.
Not all of them are citizens over 18 years of age. Only about 30 million are.
Not all of those who qualify to vote actually register to vote. Only about 20 million are
Not all of those who register, actually vote.  Only about 15 million do.
And only about two-thirds of those who actually vote, vote for Democrats.
The actual result in California in 2016 was 14.5 million votes, with 62% of those going to Hillary and 32% to Trump.
It's plausible that registration and turnout would increase if we went to a different system, but you wouldn't jump from 9 million votes for Democrats all the way to 30 million. That's not possible.

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