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diff --git a/article/democracy-us.html b/article/democracy-us.html index bd51887..7b15260 100644 --- a/article/democracy-us.html +++ b/article/democracy-us.html @@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ The electoral college makes it possible to win an federal election without winning the national popular vote. It also, similarly but not as badly as the Senate, represent the people of each state disproportionally as each state has two extra electoral votes regardless of their population. </p> <p> - A subtle but serious problem with the electoral college is that electors' listening to the votes of the people is only a <em>tradition</em>. Legally, electors can vote however they want, meaning that the US is not theoretically a democracy. This hasn't happened before, but this is one more to the list of problems in the constitution. + A subtle but serious problem with the electoral college is that electors' listening to the votes of the people is only a <em>tradition</em>. Legally, electors can vote however they want, meaning that the US is not theoretically a democracy. This hasn't happened before, but this is one more to the list of problems in the constitution, and is a potential for disaster. + </p> + + <h2 id="plurality-voting">Plurality Voting</h2> + <p> + Elections in the US uses what's called ``plurality voting'', where each voter casts one vote to their favorite canidate </p> <div id="footer"> |