Here’s what is behind this-amnesty + manditory voting = permanent Dem majority. Yes, it’s that simple.
Sure. Ted could use all those extra votes.
That is because we have gotten so far from the Founder’s vision of a republic. We essentially have a popular vote. The republican vote envisioned by our Founders would have been in small areas electing electors who would represent us in selecting a president. The party system killed that. Popular vote killed it even more. And now it is almost totally forgotten. It was how George Washington was selected as the “best person to be president” by the electors who had met for that purpose.
In that system, being a politician wasn’t a necessity. The best qualified was the issue.