Electoral College interferes in votes of Americans

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Here’s the only good thing you can say about the Electoral College: Those of us who have been intently studying the electoral count map and its red and blue states following Tuesday’s election could now easily ace a U.S. geography quiz or a “Jeopardy” category.

“I’ll take Tipping-Point States for $800, Alex.”

But as a method of determining who has the mandate of the people to serve as the president of the United States, the Electoral College is an antiquated and undemocratic invention of Constitutional Convention delegates who sought it as a safety valve against what they saw as an uninformed electorate.

When the electoral votes are in agreement with the popular vote the college is a bothersome redundancy. Had the winner of Tuesday’s election been determined by the popular vote, we would have known that former Vice President Joe Biden had won the election that evening, at the latest by Wednesday morning. We would have been spared the slow-drip of ballot-counting reports from a handful of states that turned the cable news channels into joyless multi-day telethons, replacing Jerry Lewis and Ed McMahon with Wolf Blitzer and Chris Wallace.

When the Electoral College does come into play, it negates the will of the U.S. voters, replacing the simple-majority ethic of “one person, one vote” that is used for nearly every other election in the nation with a contrived and unbalanced winner-take-all system — except in Maine and Nebraska — that apportions votes based on each state’s number of members of Congress.

In Tuesday’s election, the nation may have only narrowly avoided yet another decision — as happened most recently in 2016 and 2000 — where a few thousand votes in a handful of states would have tipped the election to the loser of the popular vote. As of Friday afternoon Biden led the popular vote by more than 4 million votes and had garnered just over 50 percent of the electorate.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-electoral-college-interferes-in-votes-of-americans/

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Speaking of alex he just passed away

[NNadir]

2. I hate to be blunt, but I will. The Electoral College gives too much power to rednecks who...

...are so fond of ignorance that they refuse to fund their schools, treat their teachers like janitors, and regard a 2000+ year old book written by sheep herders as a biology text.

The electoral college was put together by a team consisting largely of slave holders who treated human beings like farm animals and who were very much attached to protecting this disgusting and appalling "right" to beat, rape, work to death their fellow human beings, some of whom, as a result of the rapes, were their children.

It needs to go.

[marie999]

3. I am sure most Democrats believe we need to pass an amendment to the Constitution

to end the Electoral College. The problem is getting enough small states and Republicans to agree. How do we do that?

[NNadir]

4. I'm sure I don't know the answer better than anyone in 1859 knew how to pass an Amendment...

...to end slavery, or anyone in 1919 knew how to mass an amendment to give women the right to vote, or, in 1865, giving African Americans the right to vote.

Still, all were necessary to build a fairer and sustainable country.

Frankly, I think we need an entirely new constitution, but let's face it, with horrible human beings like Mitch McConnell and the like holding power, it won't happen...for now.

Why some hayseed in Wyoming has more power than a few thousand people in California makes no sense to me.