:Most states do not bother counting their absentee votes if the total absentees are less than the current vote difference, and those typically go GOP by TWO TO ONE.”
This is wrong. ALL absentees in every state are counted. For the obvious reason that down ballot races may be close in a state even if the presidential vote is not.
They are ALL counted.
The other items are all fuzzy. This one is not fuzzy. They are all counted.
BTW folks, about the EC and small states.
No, they don’t have inappropriate power. The **Country** is not just people. It’s also territory. The territory must have some sort of representation.
North Dakota’s oil is in an area where almost no one lives. Farmland is something of TOTAL value to the country, and no one lives there. The military is sworn to protect the US. Not just the people of the US.
The founding fathers did a pretty good job on all this.