Usually political calculations are made. Here, speaking of elections in the United Statesscheduled for November 5, 2025, we will only do arithmetic calculations. First of all, in 44 states they always vote for the Democratic candidate or always vote for the Republican candidate, guaranteeing one or the other the entire pie of Great Voters. In California or New Jersey or New York, for example, they always vote for a Democrat; in Utah or Missouri or Florida they always choose a Republican. You could nominate a goat or a gorilla and they always only vote for one of the two. Okay?
There are only 7 “undecided” states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. Upon closer inspection, only these states really “count” precisely because the other 44 states are divided approximately a half Republicans and half Democrats and they always vote the same way whoever the candidate is. Nobody seems to understand this outside the USA, but the election is decided only in these 7 states and it has been like this for 40 years.
Now, pay attention: the populations of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada total 60 million people. Only 73% of adults register to vote, that is 34 million people of which 67% voted in 2020 (23 million) of which only 10% change their vote sometimes (2.3 million). So, in the end, of a population of 333 million only 0.6% of voters really count (just 2.3 million).
According to the mathematics it doesn’t seem like a very democratic electoral system, does it?
by Paolo Becchi, 15 October 2024
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The article US elections, the figures prove it: American democracy is a farce comes from Nicola Porro.