So I’m a New Zealander and I have a pretty good idea on how the electoral college system works but it honestly sounds like something that can be easily corrupted and it feels like it renders the popular vote absolutely useless unless I’m totally missing something obvious?

So yeah if someone could explain to me what the benefits of such a system are, that would be awesome.

Edit - Thanks for the replies so far, already learning a lot!

  • livus@kbin.social
    25·
    11 months ago

    A dictatorship is not a benefit to the country and citizens as a whole, but it is to those individual dictators, too…

    • Skoobie@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      Right. Which is why I stated in my original comment that I am in favor of a popular majority vote…

      Edit: typo

      • livus@kbin.social
        12·
        11 months ago

        Sorry for confusion, thought you were saying it had a benefit.

        My country has Mixed Member Proportional, which means even minorities get some level of representation. I prefer it to winner-takes-all systems like what we had when I was a kid.