Clearly, "July 25 Anonymous"

Clearly, "July 25 Anonymous" is a critic of the Electoral College. But there are many who do not understand its purposes, one of which is to protect minority voters in America (according to geographic distinctions, rather than other definitions of "minority"). And it serves also as a reminder that the US is a federation of independent sovereign States, not a single entity with merely different levels of government.

Whether the majority of American voters are urban or rural, in the East or the West, in large States or small, the Electoral College acts to very slightly adjust the balance in favour of the minority, to help ensure they are not likely to simply be ignored.

It does not serve democracy well for a country with a heavy urban population bias to largely ignore rural voters (whose votes cost a lot more both to campaign for, and to cast).

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