Posted on 06/07/2022 12:38:31 AM PDT by markomalley
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has pushed colleagues on the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 to support ditching the Electoral College, Axios’ Jonathan Swan and Hans Nichols reported Sunday.
According to the report, Raskin has argued in multiple conversations with committee members that the panel should recommend abolishing the Electoral College to “protect future presidential elections against the subversion that [President Donald Trump] and his allies tried to pull off in 2020,” Swan and Nichols write.
In January, Raskin stated in an interview on ABC’s This Week that he opposes the Electoral College — personally preferring a national popular vote — but that “as long as we have the Electoral College, we’ve got to respect the rules under it.”
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“ Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has pushed colleagues….to support ditching the Electoral College”
His colleagues don’t need pushing.
There was a concerted effort by 5 states, IIRC, that wanted to do exactly this during the Trump administration.
Maybe Jamie needs to read the Constitution.
California already has a law saying if an elector doesn’t vote as pledged the vote is canceled and the elector is replaced.
Here is a list of laws for all states - https://www.fairvote.org/faithless_elector_state_laws
Abolishing the Electoral College would be the death knell of the United States.
Gonna take 3/4ths of the states to get rid of it because it is going to need an Amendment to do so.
They also warned of the danger of the gimmees outnumbering the workers.
Nope.
We are not a direct democracy.
Also the electoral college makes all states important. Not just the highext populated areas.
I’m not worried about it.
But at the same time, if Republican state legislatures and Governors, around the US, are like the ones in Georgia, then there’s a very, very good chance that it could happen.
He doesn’t have a point.
How many votes does he have in the US Senate.
Does he know what it takes to change the constitution?
The smaller states better start developing exit plans, just in case liberals manage to sneak something like this through.
Or 2/3 of Congress.
I wouldn’t put it past them to try and sneak it through as an earmark or something.
Appreciate the education.
Constitution is for moral and Godly people. Demonrats are neither.
States Ratification was the reason why the 70s Equal Rights Amendment failed, IIRC.
Imbeciles like that show why it’s needed.
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