Posted on 03/07/2023 7:10:28 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A simplistic 18th century math formula, not the latest complex Big Tech algorithm, is the greatest growing threat to our democracy. This formula got scratched out using a quill pen in 1787. Then it was used in 1789 to elect George Washington as our first president. This enduring presidential algo is found in Article II, Section I, of the U.S. Constitution.
The term “Electoral College” doesn’t appear there. But the basic math does. Each state has two senators. This equals two electoral votes, regardless of population. In addition, a state gets representatives in Congress based on population. Each representative equals one additional electoral vote. The District of Columbia is allocated three electors. The Electoral College majority next year will be 270.
In the two-party era, four presidential candidates finished second in the popular vote but won a majority of the electors and thus the White House: Republican Rutherford Hayes (1876), Republican Benjamin Harrison (1888), Republican George W. Bush (2000) and Republican Donald Trump (2016).
Yet these elections failed to sufficiently highlight the Electoral College’s danger to our democracy. We believe the 2020 presidential results should be a wake-up call.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The way most states award electors is a threat to democracy. The winner take all system disenfranchises a large part of the population. Electors should be allotted by the results in each Congressional district.
If they despise our government’s founding and controlling Document so much, they are welcome to leave.
It is just the print version of the Lincoln Project.
When I hear it, I picture a mob of entitled, money-grubbing parasites.
“danger to our democracy”
We don’t have a democracy, so there is no danger.
I think their readership plummeted sharply when they shut off the comments section, which contained excellent reader commentary, including corrections, on the articles in question.
“They’re actually communists.”
No, Communism requires recipients to help themselves to the extent they can.
“Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen”
RINOs are often communists. Many leading Democrats are just vote-buying scumbags.
BARF ALERT! needed in Aisle 1!
<< A simplistic 18th century math formula, not the latest complex Big Tech algorithm >>
Our The wisdom of the Fathers vs. algorithms programed by leftist techies. Gee, that’s a tough one. These pricks undoubtedly think the Bill of Rights is archaic and racist and needs to be updated (or eliminated) as well.
No.
Democracy? We are a constitutional Republic. If you believe the electoral college is not democratic, the same argument applies to our election of Senators; i.e., disproportionate power where low population states hold equal power to high population states. If you want 1 man 1 vote for all things, eliminate the concept of states and make all laws require passage by referendum vote by voters where a simple majority of voters make law.
"If you want to know the problem with democracy, have a 5 minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have a Republic, which the electoral College protects. Further more, our Republic is a federation of 50 individual sovereign entities.
This wise arrangement was a gift to posterity from our forefathers who were unquestionably better and brighter than anyone in public life today.
“The electoral college is pure genius”
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Truer words have never been spoken!!
The Hill is propaganda for dullards.
Democrats have nothing to fear, not since cheat-by-mail-in ballots came into being.
“...isn’t Trump...”
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No ——, shylock.
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