Reply #3: Just the opposite. [View All]

[rogerashton]

It is precisely the winner-take-all electoral college that creates the incentive to cheat in contested states. In those states, you fake 1000 votes, you may get electoral votes equivalent to millions of individual votes. Under a popular vote system, you fake 1000 votes, you get 1000 votes, period.

It is interesting how the logic of this post actually supports the opposite conclusion to the one the poster draws. I think this illustrates the power of the status quo -- when one is supporting the status quo, any old argument, however flawed, is good enough to support it. And unthinking support of the status quo is common everywhere, even on DU.