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SteveRogers
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« on: April 22, 2016, 05:08:10 AM »

Complete and total HIC. Claims to be "democratic" when in reality the most un-democratic thing I have ever seen in my life. If you don't know, the NPVIC goal is to give all of the electoral votes of a state to the winner of the nation wide popular vote, even if the winner of the popular vote didn't win in that state. That means that candidate #1 can gain all of California's 55 electoral vote even though candidate #2 may have got the popular vote of California.

Yes, so then the national popular vote winner would win the election.  How is that "un-democratic", exactly?

Well, it's undemocratic for an entirely different reason than what the OP states. It's undemocratic because you would potentially have a minority of states effectively repealing the electoral college. I support repealing the electoral college and switching to a national popular vote, but if we're going to make such a sweeping change to the electoral system then we should debate it and decide it as a country through the proper process, i.e. a constitutional amendment
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