Elections in the Netherlands - Nationalist surge halted, high voter turnout

[palou]

irstupid said:

palou said:

If more people want you than the other guy, why not? Why give more value to the vote of people just because they live in a smaller state/swing state?

To prevent mob vote.

Imagine your in High School and you have your whole student council meeting to discuss where to put extracurriculer funding. You have 20 people in art, 15 people in drama/theater, you have 10 people in math club, 5 people in chess club, ect. Add up to 99 people. 

Then you have 100 people in Basketball/football/ect. The sports. IF we go with pure popular vote, guess who has 100% of the say all the time. The sports people would get ot decide everything.

THe point of the electoral college is ot prevent that. It makes it so that the little guy is not ignored.

Or in real world terms. It makes it so that the smaller states are not ignored and only California, New York, ect have all the say. 

This assumes that people can be seperated perfectly into entities of interest. If a part of the sportsclub has overlapping interests with other groups, but are in conflict with the same issue within their group, this gives negotiation power to the other groups.

In the context of an election, the farmers from Minnesota could have overlapping interests with the farmers of California, students have common interests, the poorer or more fortunate population, immigrants everywhere, etc... 

In any natural electorat, a proportional democracy gives approximately equal power to all individuals.