Welcome to democracy; Take II
Or: Predictably unpredictable. Source: The Guardian It was about five months ago that I posted some post-Brexit-vote comment s about the reaction, and while I'm even more annoyed by the recent US election results than Brexit, now in the post-Election period it seemed worthwhile to revisit. First, going over the old stuff: STILL what not to do when a population votes opposite to how you'd like: -) STILL don't ask to change the result. Yes, it happened again. Technically it's asking for the electoral college voters to not match what turned out on election night, which isn't quite as bad as just asking for another vote, but I still don't see why 6 million votes in a petition should count over the 120(ish) million votes during the election. -) STILL don't ask to change the style of voting . There's a lot of problems with the electoral college system : all-or-nothing states, no instant-runoff, unusual weighting system, ... but that