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> 1. 300 million people are not registered voters. ~50-60 million are.

Each candidate of two in 2016 USA presidential elections got approximately as many votes. So total number of voted - not registered to vote - is twice as much.



2016 popular vote, President:

    Donald J. Trump      Republican       62,980,160
    Hillary R. Clinton   Democratic       65,845,063
    Gary Johnson         Libertarian       4,488,931
    Jill Stein           Green             1,457,050
    Evan McMullin        Independent         728,830

2000 popular vote, President:

    George W. Bush       Republican       50,456,002
    Al Gore              Democratic       50,999,897
    Ralph Nader          Green             2,882,955
    Patrick J. Buchanan  Reform              448,895
    Harry Browne         Libertarian         384,431
    Howard Phillips      Constitution         98,020
If the US had either a popular vote system or a ranked vote system state by state, the outcome would have been different. Nader had more votes in Florida than the difference between Bush and Gore.


Devil's advocate (I'm not even American): would the parties' results have been the opposite and the same people that support popular vote would still insist on it?

Or with different words: if you were living in a state with low density, would you still think that strict popular vote is fair?




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