For me it is the concept of registering to vote. I am citizen so I have the right to vote automatically and only thing I need to provide is some accepted ID.

  • Display name@feddit.nu
    12·
    2 months ago

    Indirect voting? Why would I trust my vote to someone else claiming they will honour my choice.

    Edit: also gerrymandering, registering to vote, not having the election on a holiday so everyone has a chance to vote, candidates for presidents being voted for before the vote??

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      The electrical college was, as I understand it, originally installed in the event the population voted really, really stupidly - to avoid the “tyranny of the majority.” If course that’s not actually how it works. It’s a dead theory and the whole process should be kicked off a cliff and replace with some kind of ranked choice system. At the federal level, if nothing else.

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        If the electoral college had worked as intended, Trump would not have won in 2016*.

        So, yeah, get rid of it. It’s not working anyway.

        • You could, of course, consider the attitudes and biases of the founding fathers and come to the conclusion that they would have preferred to see a man win instead of a woman. However, I don’t think that’s fair. Even in their lifetimes they were shifting their views based on their experiences. If you are going to ask them what they would do today, then you have to give them the benefit of having experienced the events of the last 248 years. You have to assume they would have continued to grow.