If voting for the losing side means your vote doesn't count, then somewhere close to half of votes are never going to count. They voted and their votes counted, but they were outnumbered by people that voted differently than them. It happens. The fact that they were significantly outvoted doesn't make their vote count any less.
But it does make those votes count less from a national standpoint and my point has been the Presidential election is a national election for the leader of all of the US.
Whether or not someone voted for Trump in LA County made no difference. Their vote did not impact who was elected. Their vote didnt matter. They could have been passed out drunk the whole day, not voted, and it wouldnt have mattered.
But if we make every vote count equally across the US for Presidential elections, that person's vote in LA County does count. It does impact the election. It does matter.
This is all just a discussion on at what point do votes get tallied up.
You want votes to be tallied at the state level and want the impact of some states to be higher than the impact of other states, based on population.
I want all votes to count the same and for votes to be tallied up at the national level since it is a vote for the leader of the nation. I want everyone's vote to directly impact the election.
The Heritage site that explains why the Electoral College is beautiful is about 20% substance and 80% surface level justification that doesnt stand up to even mild scrutiny.
After almost 250 years, we still dont have a national election where everyone's vote counts equally. Its wild.
