Electoral College is new target of Seattle BLM activists

Crosscut ^ | 11/10/2020 | Lily Fowler

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Last week, days before Joe Biden became president-elect, hundreds of people gathered in Seattle to express their outrage over the Electoral College, in part because of its connection to the systemic racism the Black Lives Matter movement has protested.

“The Electoral College was literally built on the idea that Black peoples are not human beings,” said activist, attorney and former mayoral candidate Nikkita Oliver. “We must face the white supremacist racist history of this country, and we must abolish every mechanism that keeps it in place, from the electoral, to police, to the criminal punishment system.”

Oliver joined the chorus of people calling for this constitutional change. As the vote counting in the presidential election dragged on for days, in part because of the surge in mail-in voting necessitated by the pandemic, social media was flooded with messages from people lashing out at the Electoral College.

Activists, politicians and academics in the Pacific Northwest and across the country are asking themselves what can be done to ensure the 2024 presidential race doesn’t turn into another unnecessary nail biter.

Next: What a Biden presidency could mean for WA politics “It's a cliffhanger in the Electoral College, but you won at least 4 million more votes,” said Alexander Keyssar, a professor of history and social policy at Harvard University, referring to Biden’s lead in the popular vote as of Monday.

“That gap and this whole screwball thing that we've been through for the last X number of days about this state and that state, this margin and that margin, I mean, is this really your way to run a railroad?”

[Zack Attack]

They want to burn down the campus but they can’t find it.

[ridesthemiles]

Ignorance personified.