Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191102162031/@comment-4010415-20191113013116

EmBELLEm wrote: I watched a bit of Murder of Birds' video when he was wrapping his head around this election map. Does Atlas' election follow USA "logic" when it comes  to elections....or does it do... normal voting. I'm not gonna pretend I care about elections, but from what I know America has a really dumb and convoluted system. But since this is an american show we can assume they stick close to american systems. Russia...I mean Watts hacking the votes included. Can confirm, our election system is stupid. You don't actually need the literal majority of American citizens to vote for you; you just need enough of the electoral college to vote for you. And yet they say that every vote counts. Our current president won through electoral college, not majority vote from the citizens. He got less than his competitor.

I would hope that Atlas would have a smarter system in place. They should, since the kingdom isn't split into 50 different states. If nothing else, they could tally percentages from each individual town and city that voted and use that to determine the majority. This way, cities with larger populations won't speak over towns with smaller populations so easily.