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!

    • Skoobie@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      What doesn’t? That rural states have more weight via the EC than they would in a popular vote? It’s not a benefit to the country and citizens as a whole, but it is to those individual states.

      • livus@kbin.social
        2·
        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…