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Presidential election popular vote tallies lined up against “did not vote” (mbin.grits.dev)
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[–] MacStache@programming.dev 30 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I've never understood why there is a voting system where the one with most votes can lose.

[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

It was a compromise so the smaller states were willing to join the United States. Same reason there are two senators for each state.

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