[23B1]

It really doesn't, but I understand this is a very popular albeit destructive way of thinking.

There is much more to you as a member of society than your single vote. You get to vote for many people in many different elections. You also can get civically engaged in many different ways.

[tstrimple]

This is just blatantly wrong. Look at how many votes it takes to seat a Wyoming senator versus a New York senator. Look at the electoral college. Look at the frozen House of Representatives size and the further imbalances this creates in favor of low population states. The compromises made to appease slave holding states have had long lasting repercussions on this country.

[throwway120385]

The electoral college is the reason that several presidents over the last 40 years have lost the popular vote and won the election. George W. Bush was one of the first presidents to do this. If you combine electoral college votes by population with our system of winner takes all then a few very agitated rural areas in a state with few populous cities can completely dictate the outcome of the election.

[23B1]

> There is much more to you as a member of society than your single vote. You get to vote for many people in many different elections. You also can get civically engaged in many different ways.

Civic engagement requires more than filling out a ballot