1. So you live in a "free" country that forces you to vote. Do you not realize how amusingly ironic that is? 2. You can't apply your rules to another country's. The US chose the system they did so that the smaller states' opinions were not continually drowned out, so in that sense the voting is not all equal because the smaller states have a larger say than their size would suggest. 3. Because of what I said earlier, the popular vote result you see is not the "real" result it would be in a system that recognized it. You are changing the rules after the fact and then trying to extrapolate from it. It's like if you have a soccer game which as it is, of course, only recognizes goals, then after the game you say, "yeah, team X got more goals, but team Y had most of the possession, ran more, had more chances on goals, etc." It doesn't matter until the rules are changed. 4. I live in Canada and the party that wins the election with a supposed "majority" generally only gets between 38-43% of the popular vote. I have yet to live through an election where that isn't the case. Also, sometimes you can have two parties which will get the same share of the popular vote but drastically different numbers of seats in Parliament. I'd say this is because the system was designed when there were only two parties, which isn't the case anymore, so it messes the whole thing up. Anyway, the point is that lots of "democracies" (Canada's system being similar to the entire Commonwealth) have systems which aren't as "democratic" as they first appear.
