TIL California law allows employees to take two hours paid time off in the beginning or end of the work day to vote on election day.

Well.... theoretically, the popular vote is supposed to tell the Electoral College how to vote, but only two or three states in the US apportion their electoral college votes in a democratic manner that represents something resembling the popular vote. The argument in favour of the Electoral College is that voters in two or three centers (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) could easily outweigh the votes of the rest of the country, so the College exists in part to weight a presidential election away from the big cities and give some power to the rural counties with proportionally much fewer voters than say Los Angeles County or Cook County (Chicago).

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