Why does it matter? If the system was different the whole campaign would have changed. Only the votes that matter actually matter. The rest is just speculation and you really have no idea what would happen to the popular vote if that’s what was important. He won!
Also the idea that people's votes don't count because they are in a "safe seat" is bananas. Of course it counts: they count it, and it goes towards the final result. It is like saying that the only purchase to really bankrupt you is the last one you made. No, of course not, it is the aggregate. The straw did not actually break the camel's back, and seven states do not decide the election. 271 electoral votes do! All 271+ of them.
I think it's a bit more complicated than you make it sound. I live in California, so of course all my state's electoral votes went to Harris. I could have not bothered to vote, but the problem is that if everyone like me were to think the same way, those electoral votes could go to someone else.
So yes, in a literal, technical sense, my vote counted. But in reality, my vote had little to do with the outcome, whereas the votes of someone in Pennsylvania or Arizona had everything to do with the outcome. Those seven states absolutely did decide the election.
I do think that tallying the overall popular vote is a useful metric, even if the election's outcome doesn't depend on it, so I guess in that sense my vote "counted" as well.
So how many seats is a vote worth in Iowa vs California? Is it the same?
If Elections would be done via tokens and you had 10 and another person gets 60 to vote, would you say that is unfair?
