Danny Shaw: Democracy should be one vote, one citizen

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00:00what this electoral college system means.

00:03So there's been a lot of talk in media over the past days

00:06about the occasions in which, for example,

00:09the president candidate who got the most amount of votes,

00:12who was most voted by the citizens,

00:15was not the candidate elected president.

00:18How does that math work?

00:20Yeah, the math doesn't work,

00:22because you have Hillary Clinton,

00:24had more than 3 million votes, more than Trump,

00:27but she didn't win.

00:29Of course, in 2000, it all came down to Florida,

00:32and Al Gore had millions of more votes than George Bush,

00:35but somehow George Bush became the president.

00:38So I think this is extremely discouraging,

00:41and when you try to explain it to young people,

00:44it certainly, the math never adds up.

00:48There's no serious resolution

00:51within either house of Congress

00:54to actually change this system,

00:57but it's something that we're stuck with for now,

01:00and then it comes down to these electors.

01:02We don't know who the electors are.

01:04The electors are unelected,

01:06and in 2016, that came into play

01:08because Bernie Sanders, in many states,

01:10won the Democratic primary,

01:12but then these electors,

01:14appointed by the Democratic National Convention,

01:17were able to say,

01:19no, we reject Bernie Sanders for whatever reason,

01:22representing the status quo,

01:24the establishment of the Democratic Party,

01:26with Hillary Clinton, once again,

01:28a strike against the actual democracy.

01:31We should be like so many other countries throughout the world,

01:34one vote, one citizen,

01:37and that would be more like truly representative democracy.