fandomsandfeminism:

helenkgreenwood:

iammyfather:

fandomsandfeminism:

Here’s an idea: what if electoral votes were awarded by # of actual votes cast in a state, not state population.

Like, ok, Texas has 38 electoral votes and 28 million people. But in 2016, we had about 46% of eligible voters actually vote.

So fuck it. Texas only sends 19 electoral votes in.

This wouldnt fix how fucking undemocratic and ridiculous the electoral college is, BUT, it would at least penalize states with high voter suppression amd reward states with high voter engagement.

We could do it with Congressional seats too if we got rid of geographically defined districts (which would solve the gerrymandering problem too) and moved to proportional party voting.

Both parties would hate it, California with 2 or 3 Green House members? Both parties would be yelling foul.

All the more reason to do it then

Yeah, like, that sounds like a good thing to me?