[SlowRobotAhead]

Yea, states get to chose president and they are weighted on their population. Welcome to representative democracy.

I don’t buy this argument. If it was majority rules, like Brexit, you would complain about that when it didn’t go “your” way.

The system is always broken according to someone.

[ssalazar]

"Thats just the way it is" is not a counter-argument. Electoral college votes are not weighted by population, 20% of the votes are divided evenly between states and the remainder is weighted by population. There is nothing intrinsic to representative democracy that requires this particular arrangement and practically no other developed country uses a system like the electoral college. Plenty of fair elections occur with popular votes in developed nations; Brexit is a whole separate can of idiocy and just obscures the debate here.