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2016 Postmortem

Grey Lemercier

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7. you are conflating assigning EV's per congressional district with actual proportional representation

Reply to HassleCat (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 08:42 AM

Dec 2016

The US uses a Plurality/Majoritarian system, specifically First Past the Post. The person who gets the most votes wins that district. If EV's were allocated via each district, you still wouldn't have minor parties affecting the EV's. Positions in the House are allocated now via single member districts and there are NO 3rd parties represented in the House.

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