Wisconsin recount now underway

[Flameon]

[QUOTE=_Axel;51442510]I'll only tackle this part since it's what the bulk of your argument is based on, and it's the main argument of people who defend the electoral college in general.
What you're saying in essence is that since the rural population is a minority, they need their voting power to be inflated to compensate for that fact and avoid a 'tyranny of the majority'.
Alright, fair enough. At first glance this seems like a good way to ensure nobody gets their rights trampled on because they're a minority.
But for that point to be valid [I]you need to apply the same logic to all other minorities.[/I] And that's not what the electoral college does. At all.
Do racial minorities get inflated votes? Does the unemployed? Does the handicapped? Do LGTB people get those? All of those are minorities with specific interests that are just as deserving of having their views taken into account as people from the countryside. But that's not what happens at all. In fact, some of those minorities are mainly located within cities, so the electoral college actually does the [I]opposite[/I] of what you think it does well by squashing those minorities' views to make way for the rural population's.
So basically, it grants a privilege to country people that devalues the voice of every other minorities for no valid reason. If what you want is to give a voice to the small people and avoid a 'tyranny of the majority', then the electoral college is even worse than the popular vote since it enables a tyranny of a specific minority over all the others...[/QUOTE]
This is a very nuanced and interesting argument, i really like it.

To take this a step further, 1.) its interesting that the rural minority is prone to support certain policies that disproportionately affect those other minorities negatively, and 2.) can you imagine the shit-storm that would emerge from an electoral college that tried to inflate the votes of racial minorities or LGBTQ people?

[AxeI]

[QUOTE=Flameon;51447488]This is a very nuanced and interesting argument, i really like it.

To take this a step further, 1.) its interesting that the rural minority is prone to support certain policies that disproportionately affect those other minorities negatively, and 2.) can you imagine the shit-storm that would emerge from an electoral college that tried to inflate the votes of racial minorities or LGBTQ people?[/QUOTE]
Basically an electoral system which amplifies the voices of every minorities is mathematically impossible. The only way not to reduce the voting power of any minority in the process of amplifying others' is not to do it. AKA one vote per person.