EVEN IN OUR degraded form of democracy, GETTING REPRESENTATION IN THE GOVERNMENT AND HAVING THE GOVERNMENT ACT IN THE PUBLIC GOOD IS THE WHOLE POINT OF VOTING. Without that it's no better than North Korea or any other place where they vote but don't get representation. Parts of our population have been under that theft of their representation from the start, at times to similar results that the North Korean People get from their votes.
And that is a thing that the elites, the oligarchs, the slave-holders, the financiers, the speculators and crooks and the rest of what accurately describes just about every member of the Continental Congress and what turned into the constitutional convention sought to keep from happening even as they went through the motions of "majoritarian government" by having voting.
They couldn't very well break the habits of the common People of voting, well, those men who were allowed to vote, if they wanted to talk them into fighting their desired revolution. But at the time of the ratification of the Constitution and long before that* they were making sure that they could steal the representation allotted to People who were not allowed to vote on the basis of the rules set up. Women, Black People, Native Americans, . . .
Infamously, nowadays, that is if the person even knows it, white men had a severe property ownership requirement for voting in most places - so even many, in many places most white men couldn't vote.
The enslaved were counted for purposes of representation but they weren't allowed representation, neither in the infamous 3/5ths compromise nor as the Emancipation Proclamation mixed with Jim Crow gave the grandsons of the original slave-power the 2/5ths in addition to the three they had already stolen - THAT IS, IN FACT, WHAT THE ROBERTS COURT REIMPOSED ON THE COUNTRY IN THEIR OBLITERATION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, so don't tell me the issues of what I have been writing about are ancient history. The Roberts Court is obliterating every part of the struggle for equality, they'd bring us back to de jure slavery and Clarence Thomas would as much as Goresuch, Kavanaugh or that genteel racist, Roberts. They're still stealing land from the Indians like they were from the start.
Gerrymandering, something that started as soon as representation was tied to electoral districts is an overt form of vote rigging - HOLDING AN ELECTION BUT MAKING SURE THAT THOSE YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE REPRESENTATION DON'T GET IT. That's true if race has little to do with it. Gerrymandering is practiced in Maine which frequently has the shameful distinction of being the whitest state in the country but where state legislature and senate districts are rigged regularly to have that effect. And the Roberts Court OKed partisan gerrymandering which is the cover they gave to the racial gerrymandering they just approved of.
As I said vote rigging so as to give those favored more representation than those you don't favor is baked into the structure of the Senate, in which voters in large population states are deprived of proportional representation as compared to a host of states with tiny populations, some of which have only one House district, but they get their full say in the Senate where a majority of the seats controlling control of it belong to a ridiculously small part of the national population. We'll never see that rectified by amendment because of the power that such states hold in such disproportion, not until things get so bad that the Constitution totally fails and a new one has to be negotiated. Though I think the representatives of the largest states could put pressure on the tiny population states by refusing to send them the federal money that they receive in such absurd disproportion so long as the Senate exists as it does today. Me, I'd favor its abolition, it's an abomination.
And with that Senatorial vote rigging comes the fucking Electoral College which, since it is based on the entire Congressional representation, including the Senate, as well gives tiny population states more electoral power than their numbers warrant.
I'll point out that Maine, where I live, is one of those states I think should not have that kind of representation in either the Senate or the Electoral College, I think small population states should be counted for representation across state lines to come to something more like just equity. The practice of Maine and, as I recall, Nebraska splitting their electoral votes on the basis of voting districts is hardly a full solution to that last inequity. And, frankly, I doubt that would be the reason most of the Republian-fascist states would do it, it would be to get as many Republican-fascist votes in the Electoral College as possible. As I recall Maine's decision was in some stab at "being fair."
And all of that ratfucking of representation to favor the oligarchs, the white supremacists, the misogynists, etc. turns out to be an actual danger to the actual ability of the unfavored to cast a vote or to have it counted. Our system is inherently corrupt and that corruption such as I describe above, has been used to prevent People from voting even after the passage of the Civil Rights Amendments which made their right to vote THE GODDAMNED CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. So don't give me that bull shit about the vote being the point of it all, BECAUSE EVEN YOU GUYS PROVE THAT THAT'S A LIE. And the Roberts Court as courts from the start, have protected that vote rigging on behalf of you guys.
This has been a response.
* When, during the revolution, the "several states" were being billed for their part in financing the revolutionary army and the administration - such as it was - of it the slave-power in the Southern States insisted that slaves not be counted as population so that those states' share would not be apportioned with them counted. BUT as soon as the Constitution was being drafted, in many cases the same People and certainly the same states insisted that slaves be counted in full when it came to proportional representation EVEN THOUGH THAT "REPRESENTATION" WOULD GO TO THOSE WHO HELD THEM VIOLENTLY IN SLAVERY. The original abomination of the 3/5ths provision was a compromise after they blackmailed the entire group of framers (and that was certainly not an authorized use of that assembly, but that's another issue to be pointed out) as they repeatedly blackmailed to get more than they were owed over and over again. AND THAT! IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE UNEQUAL REPRESENTATION IN GOVERNMENT.