Message from @Techpriest
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Makes sense
and if you have the most people in a state
you get the most votes
which you get 55 electoral votes in California
Texas gets 38 electoral votes
NOW
This isw here it gets tricky
Almost all states use a winner-take-all
Alright I'm listening
beside Maine
I'll talk about Maine later
Now in a winner-take-all system
It's whoever receives the most vote (not a majority, but a plurality)
IN a state
So let's take 2016 election
If Texas had 1,000,000 votes for Hillary Clinton
but Texas had 1,000,001 votes for Donald Trump
Texas give all of their 38 electoral votes to Donald Trump
Winner-takes-all
Damn
you can have 5 million californians bonus vote to your popular vote count
but their electoral votes will not be counted as strongly as someone from texas
Or Wyoming
exactly
Wyomingetes have the most power
Now for Maine
They use a joint-system
*split elector
whatever it's called and renamed nowadays
with split electors
It means your electoral votes are delegated proportionally
If half wanted Trump and half wanted Clinton
Nebraska also uses that
really?
nebraska as well then
and it's very interesting
Now if half wanted trump and half wanted clinton
then the state will *attempt* to delegate half of their electoral votes to trump and to clinton
and whoever has the most will get the leftovers ofc
Nebraska always has all go to republicans tho