Posted on 06/07/2008 8:38:32 PM PDT by Flavius
WASHINGTON, June 7 (UPI) -- Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., citing the 2000 presidential election, has introduced an amendment to abolish the Electoral College.
Nelson, in a release, pointed to the election of President George W. Bush, even though former Vice President Al Gore had more popular votes, The Hill reported. The election was decided in Florida after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a recount, giving Bush the state and a majority of the Electoral College.
Nelson's bill includes the creation of a rotating primary system to avoid disputes like those this year over the Florida and Michigan votes. The Democratic National Committee recently decided to give delegates from those states half a vote each at the party's nominating convention in Denver in August.
Both states violated party regulations by holding early primaries.
The bill would require voting machines to have paper records and allow early presidential voting across the country.
Back in the day that was the only way states would sign on. Tennessee in 1796 would have had nothing. Democrats are control freaks and don’t understand a Republic.
Even worse, you would have the NYC candidate against the LA candidate against the southern candidate against...etc. Idealogy and party affiliation would take a back seat to regional power grabs. Really healthy for the country (not).
Ha!
You’re right!
To think I’m from the Wild West. Tennessee is my home. The South is half my heritage and I understand. Go get em’ :^)
How about moving to Florida so I can vote for you?
Or...He may be evil.
Getting rid of the electoral college would cause absolute chaos in our national elections. It would be an nightmare.
Of course, anarchy is precisely what the traitorats want.
I think you are correct. He knows why the EC is in place and wants to abolish it so as to make the smaller states powerless. Another socialist that only puts up with a republic until he can destroy it from within.
The EC is part of the constitution. It may be altered or abolished as specified in Article 6 (I think).
No! All the power will belong to me! The world will be mine!
(I am, however open to qualified applicants for high posts when a suitable bribe is included with the application.)
In the 1760s, the American colonies still belonged to Great Britain. The idea of becoming independent from the British didn’t become widespread until after Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, ‘Common Sense,’ was published in January 1776.
The electors meet in their state capitals, not Washington, DC. In the early years of the Republic, electors were chosen by state legislatures in almost all states. Even up to 1812, half the states chose their electors by the state legislatures, not by popular election.
Not much good comes out of the Senate these days. Typical ‘Rat trying to bypass the system set up by the founders....men much more brilliant and honorable compared to the dreck we now have entrenched in D.C.
Stooping to pick up the Lynyrd Skynyrd vote is pretty low...even though we number twenty million, pay our taxes, own a home, and tend to vote conservative (on a Lynyrd Skynyrd scale).
Nelson is a SMILING EMPTY SUIT!!!
Too bad Florida voters don’t petition this useful idiot out of office.
Another socialist that only puts up with a republic until he can destroy it from within.
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Another communist.
It is time to call evil by its true name.
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