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Presidential election popular vote tallies lined up against “did not vote” (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

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[–] Vlixz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What a weird system! Is there a specific reason why the US decided to do elections this way instead of just using the normal tallied vote count? This just adds a huge layer of complexity to the elections - you'd think they'd want to keep it as transparent and simple as possible.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The copout answer is "Back in the day it made it easier to do federal elections since the US is so big" afaik

Tho really it's just hard to change, the democrats are lazy/don't wanna rock the boat, and the republicans benefit from it and are also evil