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| The Electoral College: Source of Inequality and Social Injustice in America by Gary Parish |
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| A MAJOR SOURCE OF INEQUALITY AND INJUSTICE IN AMERICA |
• One Person One Vote Myth • Fundamentally Unfair! • See For Yourself! • Social Injustice • Football Analogy • Moral Arguments • EC Cancels Votes • Founding Fathers • Invalid Arguments For EC • States' Rights? • Reform Options • Conclusion • Inequality Maps • EC Cartoons • Postscript:Voting Power • References • Acknowledgements • Action Center • Get Involved • E-mail White House • E-mail Congress • E-mail Newspapers • E-mail Political Parties • E-mail Networks • E-mail Media • Calling Cards • Teaching Notes |
The state-to-state variation in the value of a person's vote--caused by the Electoral College--is inversely proportional to the population of the state of residence. The Electoral College therefore works against those racial, cultural, and ethnic groups whose history, heritage or financial endowment cause a disproportionate geographical distribution of their people to states with larger populations. For example, African-Americans and Hispanics are located in the more populous states and the value of their vote has been diminished thereby. The same is true for religious groups, such as the Jewish population. Because of this Electoral College bias, the relative value of a vote of a typical person in these groups is significantly different from that of the average White voter when it comes to electing the President. For example, comparing the average value of a vote for African-American voters and white voters across all states shows that the vote of a white person is 6 percent larger than an African-American vote, and 10 percent larger than a Hispanic vote. In other words a vote cast by an African-American person on average is only worth 94 percent as much as one cast by a White person; and a Hispanic person's vote is only worth about 90 percent. Similarly, the average Jewish vote is worth only 91 percent as much as the average white person's vote, and Asian/Pacific Islander votes are worth about 97 percent as much as the average white person's vote. The average value of the vote of an immigrant is only 89 percent of the average white person's vote. Until these racial disparities are eliminated through Electoral College reform, the goal of true equality among the races in America will remain a distant illusion. The Civil Rights movement will fall short of its goal.
The state-to-state variation in the value of a citizen's vote means we choose our presidents using an election process that is unfair! Even a child knows that an election in which the voters get unequal numbers of votes is unfair.
Because the presidential election process is unfair it is easy to understand
how a candidate can win the popular vote, yet lose the election.
The last remaining superpower on earth, the most powerful nation on earth, the beacon of democracy and leader of the free world chooses its president through an unfair election process.See cartoon.
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