From Virginia state senator Bill Carrico, explaining why rural voters are unhappy with Virginia's current method of simply counting up the votes statewide in presidential elections:
The last election, constituents were concerned that it didn't matter what they did, that more densely populated areas were going to outvote them.Okay....that's Virginia. We live in Michigan. Never would happen here, would it?
And while we're on the subject, here's a bonus quote from Michigan representative Pete Lund, explaining why his Electoral College vote-rigging scheme is gaining support this year but didn't in 2012:
It got no traction last year. There were people convinced Romney was going to win and this might take (electoral) votes from him.
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The people of rural Virginia want a "one acre, one vote" policy. I don't see how this logic: "$10,000.00 in taxes paid to the government, one vote" is any different--and to my mind makes more sense. An interesting point is brought up in the discussion of the article--that the E.C. is simply out-of-date and unnecessary. What follows is: why not pick that fight, have a strict popular vote, and lose this gerrymandering and vote-rigging?
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