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We Need Electoral College Vote Not Popular Vote Down To The Local Government Lev by SueZuckerberg: 8:59pm On Feb 26, 2019
You'd see a politician win one or two very large local government areas (maybe because his kinsmen hail from there, or the rigging was orchestrated perfectly and the sheer number of voters in that region didn't help matters) in his state or country, and then as a result, he has the popular vote even though a larger part of the state don't want him. This is not healthy for our infantile democracy. Methink a politician should be elected to delicate positions like governors and president because he's able to pull massive votes up north, down south, far west and also to the east. This is not a refrence to the recent election per say.

We don't want a politician who's only loved by his kinsmen, we should set aside this popular vote system abegi because it doesn't help us.

California alone in the last US election gave Hillary, I think 2M vote and she got the popular vote by I think 2 million votes, too, and that's where the problem lies. Godfathers in Nigerian politics especially at the governorship levels have clung to this loopholes in Nigerian since winning big (and rigging by implication) in key local government areas clinches the ticket for another four years of tyranny, mis-rule and looting. If the popular votes system is set aside, it would be extremely difficult (they'd be no center of gravity to hit, or put more differently, it would be more expensive for these democracy-thieves to carry out their aim because they'd have to right more local government areas) or what do you think?

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Re: We Need Electoral College Vote Not Popular Vote Down To The Local Government Lev by rottennaija(m): 9:53pm On Feb 26, 2019
So a few people, the king makes will sit down and decide who will be president? Like Hillary Clinton won the popular votes by the people whereas a few hundred people had chosen Trump as president?
Re: We Need Electoral College Vote Not Popular Vote Down To The Local Government Lev by rottennaija(m): 9:56pm On Feb 26, 2019
SueZuckerberg:
You'd see a politician win one or two very large local government areas (maybe because his kinsmen hail from there, or the rigging was orchestrated perfectly and the sheer number of voters in that region didn't help matters) in his state or country, and then as a result, he has the popular vote even though a larger part of the state don't want him. This is not healthy for our infantile democracy. Methink a politician should be elected to delicate positions like governors and president because he's able to pull massive votes up north, down south, far west and also to the east. This is not a refrence to the recent election per say.

We don't want a politician who's only loved by his kinsmen, we should set aside this popular vote system abegi because it doesn't help us.

California alone in the last US election gave Hillary, I think 2M vote and she got the popular vote by I think 2 million votes, too, and that's where the problem lies. Godfathers in Nigerian politics especially at the governorship levels have clung to this loopholes in Nigerian since winning big (and rigging by implication) in key local government areas clinches the ticket for another four years of tyranny, mis-rule and looting. If the popular votes system is set aside, it would be extremely difficult (they'd be no center of gravity to hit, or put more differently, it would be more expensive for these democracy-thieves to carry out their aim because they'd have to right more local government areas) or what do you think?

What will electorial college add to it?
Re: We Need Electoral College Vote Not Popular Vote Down To The Local Government Lev by SueZuckerberg: 8:47am On Feb 27, 2019
rottennaija:


What will electorial college add to it?

It would reduce the effects of bloc votes given by a particular region with a large population at the expense of the whole population who are voting for someone else.
Re: We Need Electoral College Vote Not Popular Vote Down To The Local Government Lev by franticfargo66: 5:43pm On Feb 12, 2020
SueZuckerberg:
You'd see a politician win one or two very large local government areas (maybe because his kinsmen hail from there, or the rigging was orchestrated perfectly and the sheer number of voters in that region didn't help matters) in his state or country, and then as a result, he has the popular vote even though a larger part of the state don't want him. This is not healthy for our infantile democracy. Methink a politician should be elected to delicate positions like governors and president because he's able to pull massive votes up north, down south, far west and also to the east. This is not a refrence to the recent election per say.

We don't want a politician who's only loved by his kinsmen, we should set aside this popular vote system abegi because it doesn't help us.

California alone in the last US election gave Hillary, I think 2M vote and she got the popular vote by I think 2 million votes, too, and that's where the problem lies. Godfathers in Nigerian politics especially at the governorship levels have clung to this loopholes in Nigerian since winning big (and rigging by implication) in key local government areas clinches the ticket for another four years of tyranny, mis-rule and looting. If the popular votes system is set aside, it would be extremely difficult (they'd be no center of gravity to hit, or put more differently, it would be more expensive for these democracy-thieves to carry out their aim because they'd have to right more local government areas) or what do you think?


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