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Senator moves to abolish Electoral College
upi ^ | 6/7/08 | upi

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 110th; billnelson; bush; elections; electoralcollege; florida; presidentbush; soreloserman; usa
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To: pepsionice

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.


21 posted on 06/07/2008 9:09:15 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: pepsionice

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).


22 posted on 06/07/2008 9:10:21 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: pepsionice
Quite a scary thought isn't it?

thanks,

Katherine

Katherine Jenerette for US Congress

23 posted on 06/07/2008 9:10:50 PM PDT by kjenerette (www.jenerette.org - U.S. Army Paratrooper - Operation Desert Storm)
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To: kjenerette

Ha!


24 posted on 06/07/2008 9:13:46 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: eyedigress

You’re right!


25 posted on 06/07/2008 9:14:53 PM PDT by kjenerette (www.jenerette.org - U.S. Army Paratrooper - Operation Desert Storm)
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To: kjenerette

To think I’m from the Wild West. Tennessee is my home. The South is half my heritage and I understand. Go get em’ :^)


26 posted on 06/07/2008 9:22:44 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: kjenerette

How about moving to Florida so I can vote for you?


27 posted on 06/07/2008 9:23:49 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Leaving the top of my ballot blank.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
On the other hand, he might just be and ignorant moron that doesn’t care.
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Or...He may be evil.

28 posted on 06/07/2008 9:39:28 PM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Flavius

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.


29 posted on 06/07/2008 9:50:11 PM PDT by rock_lobsta (Not Your Ordinary Crustacean.)
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To: Flavius
Well, let's just cut to the chase. We should skip elections all-together and just have super delegates choose presidents!
30 posted on 06/07/2008 10:06:10 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: wintertime

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.


31 posted on 06/07/2008 10:20:55 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SkyDancer

The EC is part of the constitution. It may be altered or abolished as specified in Article 6 (I think).


32 posted on 06/07/2008 10:24:14 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: pepsionice
It makes this much simpler and cheaper for me to win such an election.

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.)

33 posted on 06/07/2008 10:27:24 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: pepsionice

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.


34 posted on 06/07/2008 10:30:11 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: Patrick1

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.


35 posted on 06/07/2008 11:14:30 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: kjenerette

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).


36 posted on 06/07/2008 11:34:34 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Flavius

Nelson is a SMILING EMPTY SUIT!!!


37 posted on 06/08/2008 2:16:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Flavius

Too bad Florida voters don’t petition this useful idiot out of office.


38 posted on 06/08/2008 4:10:56 AM PDT by CWWren (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress....but I repeat myself.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

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.


39 posted on 06/08/2008 4:32:45 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Flavius
Sen. Bill Nelson, insert scurrilous epithet , to abolish the Electoral College it has to be done via a Constitutional Amendment approved by the states. Your simple "Bill ain't gonna change it so you can have a Dim-O-RAT "coup." Insert scurrilous epithet.
40 posted on 06/08/2008 6:20:50 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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