What are the origins of the American voting system?

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Ka-pi96 said:

fatslob-:O said:

It's true that FPTP practically gives a duopoly but it makes a whole lot of sense when there's only position for ONE ...

Tell me rol, does it make sense to have two or multiple presidents each having power representative to the proportional vote ?

Aren't there multiple ways around that though? For starters you could have the president being the one with the most votes overall, rather than the most wins by state.

Alternatively you could use run off voting to ensure that one of the candidates would eventually end up with over 50% of the vote.

Each state still acts its own soveriegn nation (or should in theory) that is why its done by state and not by over all votes. States can choose to split their delegates as well as far as i know. no state does though

 

It would be like electing European Union Leaders by popular vote across the EU instead of by each country. Federal US elections should be compared more to EU elections, and State level elections should be compared to european country elections for a better example. Not exactly the same but better