• lath@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m not from the US either, but I’ve seen enough to attempt answering this.

    They have two voting systems

    • popular vote
    • electoral college vote

    Popular vote is the easily corruptible people going out and voting after a long period of politicians lying their teeth off face to face.

    Electoral college vote is a bunch of easily corruptible fuckwits who vote with whoever pays best, regardless of popular voting.

    Electoral college vote seems to matter more than popular vote. Not sure how or why. So less popular candidates can win because fuck the people, I guess.