None of the following names appear on the OFFICIAL 2016 PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS
with even a single vote to their name displayed; yet...
Hawaii cast 1 vote for Bernie Sanders
Texas cast 1 vote for John Kasich and 1 for Ron Paul
Washington cast 3 votes for Colin Powell and 1 vote for Faith Spotted Eagle
None of these states reported even a single general ballot cast for any of these people.
Meanwhile, Gary Johnson received over 4 million general votes (3.28% of the entire general vote)
and Zero electoral votes.
While 48 of our 50 states as a rule employ the "all or nothing" system, the unelected officials that comprise
each state's electoral college are free in many cases to vote for whichever candidate they wish.
This system is arbitrary and not representative of the will of the people as the voting data
provided publicly by the Federal Elections Commission shows.
(TLDR @bottom of page)
I have gone back as far as the 2000 Presidential Election. I have come to the opinion that "all or nothing" (which is employed by every state except for Maine and Nebraska, although I feel their systems are inadequate to representation as well) is effectively systemic voter suppression and is almost entirely responsible for the battleground state scenarios that we see play out each Presidential election cycle as well as the active suppression of additional parties being able to compete on a fair level with the Republican and Democratic Parties. I feel this process is not representative and should be made illegal as, and this is a low estimate, each election since 2000 has seen from 40-44% of people who voted misrepresented by their state's electoral college.
On average since the 2000 election over 50,000,000 voters
have been suppressed each election.
The files are directly from the FEC's website. The difference between how I have calculated electoral college representation is straight forward and to me the more simple a system can be the harder it is for it to break. I took the total numbers of votes cast in a state and divided this by how many electoral votes a state is assigned. This gives me a value of how many general votes an electoral college vote is worth.
Since 2000, an average of over 23 million Democrat voters have been suppressed each election.
Over 29 million Republican voters.
Each candidate should receive credit for votes that they earned e.x. If a State had 100,000 votes cast and had 10 electoral college votes, an electoral college vote is earned for every 10,000 votes. If a candidate received 19,999 votes, they still would have earned only 1 vote. The remainder of electoral college votes are assigned to the candidate who received the most general votes. In the very unlikely event of a tie, the remaining votes would be split evenly if possible or abstained if not possible.
In Minnesota in 2004 not a single ballot in the entire state was reported as cast for John Edwards-
He still received one electoral college vote.
This formula for counting votes shows a much more accurate representation of how states' citizens voted. Important to note is that none of the outcomes would change up until the 2016 election (where none of the candidates received the minimum 270 electoral votes). It is also important to note that a candidate still would not need to win the popular vote to win an election, so as to serve as a buffer against simple majority rule/mob rule.
Republicans in:
CA, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA
Your vote has never been represented in the past 5 presidential elections because of "all or nothing".
Democrats in:
AL, AK, AZ, AR, GA, KS, KY, LA, MS, MO, MT, ND, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WY
Your vote has never been represented in the past 5 presidential elections because of "all or nothing".
This means in the 2020 election, despite having more states in their pocket, Republicans will be behind Democrats 171 : 182 from the start.
It also means there are 34 states in our union that have systemically suppressed opposition to their majority
for at least the last 20 years.
This adjustment to the system would serve to more accurately represent the people, remove the possibility of corruption from the current electoral college and allow for additional parties to have an actual chance at receiving votes while still providing protection against real instances of voter fraud.
Number of States won without a majority (less than 51%) by year:
2000: 12
2004: 5
2008: 4
2012: 2
2016: 15
The 2000 and 2016 elections were particularly contentious and in those years we can note a sharp spike in candidates winning states without the support of the majority of its voters. While a majority is not required, it is unacceptable that such a relatively large number of states would report solidarity behind a single candidate when it is demonstrably not the case.
Number of General Votes cast by year:
2000: 105,405,100 (R: 50,456,002)(D: 50,999,897)(Other: 3,949,201)
2004: 122,295,345 (R: 62,040,610)(D: 59,028,444)(Other: 1,226,291)
2008: 131,257,328 (R: 59,934,814)(D: 69,456,897)(Other: 1,865,617)
2012: 129,067,622 (R: 60,932,152)(D: 65,899,660)(Other: 2,235,810)
2016: 136,668,937 (R: 62,984,825)(D: 65,853,489)(Other: 7,830,623)
More votes were cast for non-Democrat and non-Republican candidates in 2016 than in 2004, 2008, and 2012 combined.
TLDR
Imagine you are at a meeting with 100 other people and it is time for lunch.
The boss is ordering pizza, each pizza serves 5 people, and he asks everyone to vote for which pizza they want to have.
80 people say they want pepperoni, 15 do not like pepperoni and would like just extra cheese,
3 want ham and pineapple, 2 want BBQ Chicken, and you want whatever you like.
The boss hears you all out and then orders 17 pepperoni, 1 extra cheese, 1 anchovy and mushroom (his favorite), and 1 with extra sausage.
This is how our current presidential election system effectively works.
with even a single vote to their name displayed; yet...
Hawaii cast 1 vote for Bernie Sanders
Texas cast 1 vote for John Kasich and 1 for Ron Paul
Washington cast 3 votes for Colin Powell and 1 vote for Faith Spotted Eagle
None of these states reported even a single general ballot cast for any of these people.
Meanwhile, Gary Johnson received over 4 million general votes (3.28% of the entire general vote)
and Zero electoral votes.
While 48 of our 50 states as a rule employ the "all or nothing" system, the unelected officials that comprise
each state's electoral college are free in many cases to vote for whichever candidate they wish.
This system is arbitrary and not representative of the will of the people as the voting data
provided publicly by the Federal Elections Commission shows.
(TLDR @bottom of page)
I have gone back as far as the 2000 Presidential Election. I have come to the opinion that "all or nothing" (which is employed by every state except for Maine and Nebraska, although I feel their systems are inadequate to representation as well) is effectively systemic voter suppression and is almost entirely responsible for the battleground state scenarios that we see play out each Presidential election cycle as well as the active suppression of additional parties being able to compete on a fair level with the Republican and Democratic Parties. I feel this process is not representative and should be made illegal as, and this is a low estimate, each election since 2000 has seen from 40-44% of people who voted misrepresented by their state's electoral college.
On average since the 2000 election over 50,000,000 voters
have been suppressed each election.
The files are directly from the FEC's website. The difference between how I have calculated electoral college representation is straight forward and to me the more simple a system can be the harder it is for it to break. I took the total numbers of votes cast in a state and divided this by how many electoral votes a state is assigned. This gives me a value of how many general votes an electoral college vote is worth.
Since 2000, an average of over 23 million Democrat voters have been suppressed each election.
Over 29 million Republican voters.
Each candidate should receive credit for votes that they earned e.x. If a State had 100,000 votes cast and had 10 electoral college votes, an electoral college vote is earned for every 10,000 votes. If a candidate received 19,999 votes, they still would have earned only 1 vote. The remainder of electoral college votes are assigned to the candidate who received the most general votes. In the very unlikely event of a tie, the remaining votes would be split evenly if possible or abstained if not possible.
In Minnesota in 2004 not a single ballot in the entire state was reported as cast for John Edwards-
He still received one electoral college vote.
This formula for counting votes shows a much more accurate representation of how states' citizens voted. Important to note is that none of the outcomes would change up until the 2016 election (where none of the candidates received the minimum 270 electoral votes). It is also important to note that a candidate still would not need to win the popular vote to win an election, so as to serve as a buffer against simple majority rule/mob rule.
Republicans in:
CA, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA
Your vote has never been represented in the past 5 presidential elections because of "all or nothing".
Democrats in:
AL, AK, AZ, AR, GA, KS, KY, LA, MS, MO, MT, ND, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WY
Your vote has never been represented in the past 5 presidential elections because of "all or nothing".
This means in the 2020 election, despite having more states in their pocket, Republicans will be behind Democrats 171 : 182 from the start.
It also means there are 34 states in our union that have systemically suppressed opposition to their majority
for at least the last 20 years.
This adjustment to the system would serve to more accurately represent the people, remove the possibility of corruption from the current electoral college and allow for additional parties to have an actual chance at receiving votes while still providing protection against real instances of voter fraud.
Number of States won without a majority (less than 51%) by year:
2000: 12
2004: 5
2008: 4
2012: 2
2016: 15
The 2000 and 2016 elections were particularly contentious and in those years we can note a sharp spike in candidates winning states without the support of the majority of its voters. While a majority is not required, it is unacceptable that such a relatively large number of states would report solidarity behind a single candidate when it is demonstrably not the case.
Number of General Votes cast by year:
2000: 105,405,100 (R: 50,456,002)(D: 50,999,897)(Other: 3,949,201)
2004: 122,295,345 (R: 62,040,610)(D: 59,028,444)(Other: 1,226,291)
2008: 131,257,328 (R: 59,934,814)(D: 69,456,897)(Other: 1,865,617)
2012: 129,067,622 (R: 60,932,152)(D: 65,899,660)(Other: 2,235,810)
2016: 136,668,937 (R: 62,984,825)(D: 65,853,489)(Other: 7,830,623)
More votes were cast for non-Democrat and non-Republican candidates in 2016 than in 2004, 2008, and 2012 combined.
TLDR
Imagine you are at a meeting with 100 other people and it is time for lunch.
The boss is ordering pizza, each pizza serves 5 people, and he asks everyone to vote for which pizza they want to have.
80 people say they want pepperoni, 15 do not like pepperoni and would like just extra cheese,
3 want ham and pineapple, 2 want BBQ Chicken, and you want whatever you like.
The boss hears you all out and then orders 17 pepperoni, 1 extra cheese, 1 anchovy and mushroom (his favorite), and 1 with extra sausage.
This is how our current presidential election system effectively works.
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