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Is there a lore reason why American elections are so convoluted? (lemm.ee)

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Are they stupid?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fun fact: Romans invented gerrymandering. They were signing in all the new citizens to just few of the tribes, just in case the new ones actually went to Rome for any voting in those comitia. Imagine something like having 100 million people in constituencies for everyone not living in DC.