No. Every other developed country in the world has a simple majority election process. And no, the Electoral College wasn't designed to give smaller states "more representation." It was designed as a fail safe in case the collective public lost its mind and elected a person completely unfit for office, like a bloodthirsty dictator.
Another thing these developed countries have in common
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/11/06...ting-system-2/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/...tries-require/
I don't have problems with voter ID.
or an orange buffoon
as long as the government provides free ID to citizens, i'd have no issue either
Wouldn't be too hard. Start at birth and/or link to SS.
Portable citizenship from birth or entry to SS= automatically registered, lifetime, portable voting privilege.
Other countries have already figured it out. We're not too dumb, we just don't want to let all citizens vote.
IT'S A CONSPIRACY THEORY!
So we got 3 people that want to end the Electoral College because "other countries are doing it." Also ending the Electoral College is not radical because reasons.
Isn't the electoral college actually the radical solution in this case, since it's the outlier to what every other country implements? Why does simple majority "trouble" you? "Cuz dem libruhhhl coastal states will have all the power!" Then conservatives need to campaign harder to convince liberals in those states their policies are good. Other arguments I anticipate are: "But libruuuls keep allowing in immigrants who always vote for them!" 66% of Hispanics aren't affiliated with the Democratic party, and 30 percent voted for Trump.So we got 3 people that want to end the Electoral College because "other countries are doing it." Also ending the Electoral College is not radical because reasons.
You might not like majority rules, but minority rules isn't any better.
What makes getting rid of it radical?So we got 3 people that want to end the Electoral College because "other countries are doing it." Also ending the Electoral College is not radical because reasons.
The radical part is getting rid of minority rule.
Cons ution not conspiracy. The electoral college is real.
Who's the last republican who won the popular majority?
If you tied mandatory legal citizen voter ID to abolishing electoral college, do you think Dems in Congress would support?
Provided there was an avenue for legal citizens to get voter ID without paying any fee, yes, without question.
there's no voter fraud, other than the fantasies that Repug / rightwing hate media pollute your ing brain with.
If it's a de facto poll tax, no.
Are you really pushing the MASSIVE VOTE FRAUD conspiracy theory too?
I have no idea how much the illegal immigrant voting bloc swings elections, but Dems, being s -sucking politicians (as all politicians are. Side note: Hate the hagiography we sometimes have toward politicians) will opt for whatever choice best ensures their political survival. I'm for abolishment for the EC simply because it makes the most sense to me. Why should elections come down to a couple of swing states? (how many times has in' Iowa been the battleground state?) Seems silly.
that's not "why" abolishing the electoral college makes sense. that's just evidence that going with a popular vote can work just fine, and evidence that it's not a radical concept.So we got 3 people that want to end the Electoral College because "other countries are doing it." Also ending the Electoral College is not radical because reasons.
the "why" is because a popular vote makes more sense. a citizen's vote shouldn't count any more or less based on where they reside. right now, a vote in ohio is significantly more important than a vote from mississippi. why is that fair?
The so-called "Cons utional" anti-democratic EC was designed/intended to disenfranchise voters who were feared/detested by the FFs and who had to be stopped (by the EC) from electing a candidate the FF white male oligarchy wouldn't like.
If the EC had rather elected two Dem presidents over popular-vote-winning Repug candidates, then all y'all Fox viewers would be screaming to kill the EC.
EC ain't going nowhere, since killing it would take a Cons utional amendment that would be voted down by red/slave states.
Why not make each state have one vote
Popular vote In each state
Why is it fair California state have more say then other states
Are not all states suppose to be equall
Because it has more people than other states you re ed monkey.
because i dont think 1 voter from wyoming should have the same impact as 68 voters in california. each individual vote should carry the same weight/impact.
or that 1 voter from vermont should have the same impact as 46 voters from texas
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