Every county in every state gets one electoral vote which goes to the candidate that wins that particular county. That way every county gets a say.
Take nevaDUH(please.JK) Two counties, Clark and Washoe basically provided the entire state to brandon. The other counties? Sit down and shut up. We'll let you know if we need to hear from you.
If states had it...there would not so many LIBERAL STATES
Unconstitutional. Would require a Constitutional amendment..........
They know they almost got caught. They pushed the fraud to the limit in 2020 to get rid of Trump. They know that we know.
Every county in every state gets one electoral vote which goes to the candidate that wins that particular county.
Should be the same in Governors races.
IMHO the 19th Century act is unconstitutional. Don’t try to fix it. Repeal it.
Guess the idiot republicans never want to win again. In their quest to stop Trump, they will allow failed blue cities and illegal immigrants decide who our leaders will be. If they do that, the push should be on for secession and red state / blue state each having their own governments. If they want to take us to the brink, eliminating the electoral college will do it.
It just Nevada
NY, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and many more
Basically, other than a few northeastern states, where the metro areas throw everything off, the country is RED.
Every year, the dumbest idea of the year arises. I don’t know who will win for 2021, but this one surely is the leader for the 2022 award. I’m sure that there will be plenty of competition.
The States determine the numbers and composition in every county within their state. Usually, the Legislatures and the Governors play roles and State Constitutions may prescribe procedures. Those States who are controlled by one Party, could easily change county boundaries and add and subtract the number of counties before each Federal Presidential election to ensure that their Party wins. The Island of Manhattan could become 20 counties with Brooklyn and the Bronx having ten each. Staten Island would be a single county.
It’s really hard to become a Founder, even with more than 200 years of experience to inform the debate.
Besides requiring a major Constitutional amendment, there is the problem of how many counties a state has. MO has over 100, TX well over 200, GA has a bunch, other states have only few, California being one. And what would stop a state from creating lots of new counties, since counties are a creature of the state.
>> It also increases the number of lawmakers in the House and Senate that need to support an objection before both chambers must vote on it. Currently, it just takes one member from the House and Senate, the legislation would increase it to one-third of both chambers. <<
Hokay...
>> It also increases the threshold for upholding the objection from a simple majority in both chambers to three-fifths in both chambers. <<
So no party could ever likely possess enough votes to uphold even an objection to the most egregious voter fraud?
And yet how much would anyone like to bet that the very first time the Democrats reach 60 votes with a newly elected Republican, they pull that trigger?
The word “reform” means “act of vandalism” to leftists.
While I like the notion of LA County getting one electoral vote, I don’t think you’re reasonable.
However, if we were to rewrite the electoral college, I’d like to see each district voting separately. A standard algorithm which minimizes the average number of counties per electoral district could be used to prevent gerrymandering. Non-citizens shouldn’t be counted. Dems could no longer rely on running up the margins in the big cities (90%+ majorities) to win big. I could imagine 50, 100 or 435 electoral votes all working.
The VP’s role may be “ceremonial” now, but it wasn’t meant to be. It was meant to be a real thing.
That’s not fair, but it will never happen so no point debating it
What you propose would require a Constitutional Amendment and I don’t think you’d ever get the majority needed.
However, the best way to understand the Electoral College is to look at a map showing the county-by-county voting and remember that the Founding Fathers set up the Electoral College so that the President should have widespread appeal, not narrow appeal.
In 2020 Trump won 2,589 counties; Biden won 552.
In 2008 Obama won 869 counties and got 69,456,897 votes. In Biden’s 552 counties he supposedly got 81,281,888 votes. So that means that for every 100 votes that Obama won in his counties, Biden had to win 180 votes in his counties to get to his vote total. It’s just not believable.
Even Mrs. rktman can see that's not fair.
I prefer the method that Maine and Nebraska takes in awarding Electoral votes. Whomever gets the most votes statewide gets two electoral votes. Then whomever gets the most votes in each congressional district of the state gets one electoral vote.
That would change the dynamic on the Left from only having to win the largest city in a state in order to win the entire state's electoral votes.
Your example of Nevada, there are four congressional districts, so a Democrat might the overall state vote and two electoral votes, and win two of the congressional counties that surround Las Vegas for another two, but the Republican would probably win the other two districts for two electoral votes.
“protections for election workers in the wake of the 2020 debacle.”
Do they mean protecting the ones seen on videos pulling boxes of ballot from under tables after they sent home most other workers and then ran those ballots through counting machines four or five times?
Who could have seen that headline coming?
99.00 to 99.75%?
You’re not far off.
I suggest that we encourage the States to adopt the same formula that Maine and Nebraska use. That is, Electors are assigned based on the number of Congressional Districts carried. One District = One Elector. The Senate Electors are assigned based on the popular vote in the State. This way, Republicans in upstate New York are enfranchised as are Democrats in Texas. easy, peasy.