Trollminator wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
I love how one Dems ideas becomes evey Dems ideas.
Warren just committed political suicide. She needs to drop.
I think if voter IDs were free then Dems would support. The issue with voter ID laws is that they negatively affect the poor. Poor people not voting, specifically poor black people not voting, negatively affects the Dem vote. It’s just unfair to the poor period.
Under 18 voting is stupid.
The EC is broken and needs to be fixed not abolished. The EC was meant to PROTECT us from candidates like Trump as the electors were never meant to be tied to the popular vote and currently are only tied to the popular vote in I think 20 states?
It’s surreal that we have woefully unprepared and unqualified candidates running for president. I mean they mentioned Oprah a number of months ago. That’s insane. Ditto with Trump. Ya need to study the purpose of the EC man.
Alan
A proposal has been floating around in several blue states for months to award the EC votes to whoever wins the popular vote nationally. That would not be considered rigging, just like NJ soon to demand that any presidential candidate that wants to be on their state ballot release their tax return. All these traditions are loose and come with caveats, perhaps that’s the real power of our democracy - adaptation.
Technically I suppose your post is correct. However, in the vernacular it is somewhat misleading.
This proposal, indeed it is a movement, has been "floating around" for well over a decade. The first state to commit to the compact was Maryland in 2007. And of course, the idea was being floated around well before any state formally signed up.