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Should the electoral college be abolished?
youtube ^ | Nov 13, 2016 | cnn

Posted on 11/13/2016 12:05:45 PM PST by mdittmar

Stanford sociology professor Douglas McAdam says the electoral college, which determined this election, is an outdated system.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; globalism; treason
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To: mdittmar

“Outdated” is not an argument.


81 posted on 11/13/2016 1:29:46 PM PST by gogeo (Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump.)
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To: wrench

I was thinking that if voters approve new taxes, the tax should be equally divided among all the registered voters.


82 posted on 11/13/2016 1:31:10 PM PST by Mark was here (We came We saw She died.)
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To: mdittmar
The EC acts as a firewall for election fraud.

Regardless of how many illegals vote in CA, for example, it counts for no more than 50%+1.

In fact, if there's anything that needs to be changed, it's the practice of counting illegals in the census for the purpose of apportioning representation.

83 posted on 11/13/2016 1:34:06 PM PST by gogeo (Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump.)
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To: mdittmar
No. And the 17th Amendment has to be repealed, too.

Then maybe we can fight our way back to what the Founding Fathers established and left for us.

84 posted on 11/13/2016 1:42:01 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: mdittmar
OK, Professor. Let's compromise.

Do away with the electors and tally the vote by congressional district. The winner of a state's CDs gets the state's two extra votes, except in the case of a tie in CDs, in which case the winner of the state's popular vote gets its extra votes.

Such a system offers four advantages:

  1. No electors, hence no faithless electors.
  2. Recounts would be limited to close CDs.
  3. Fraud would be firewalled to the CDs in which it occurs. Stealing a CD only steals the CD. Excess stolen votes don't contribute further to stealing the state.
  4. Urban cesspools in such states as NY, IL, and CA would have their influence contained.

If we go by the way California's House races turned out, Trump probably carried 15 of California's 53 CDs and would have received 15 of its 55 electoral votes.


California's House races 2016
The green one up north went D. The green one by San Diego went R (Darrel Issa's district)

85 posted on 11/13/2016 1:55:55 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: mdittmar

No. God gave us the Founding Fathers and brought us to this country for a reason. We were blessed with a miraculous opportunity then and would be fools to throw it all away now out of arrogance and stupidity.


86 posted on 11/13/2016 1:59:14 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: mdittmar

I think that we need a law stating that no person, who wishes to engage in any activity whatsoever, may be required to present more identification than that which is required to vote.


87 posted on 11/13/2016 2:16:01 PM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: mdittmar

Not just no, but heck no.


88 posted on 11/13/2016 2:34:28 PM PST by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: mdittmar

No! We need to rescind the 17th Amendment! Give the states representation in the political process, as the Founding Fathers intended.


89 posted on 11/13/2016 3:04:58 PM PST by Redleg Duke (Time for a new party for We the People, to restore a two-party system!)
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To: KarlInOhio
Maybe they should give each state ten times the number of electors they now have, but require the electors to be divided as evenly as possible in accordance with the popular vote in that state.

That would confine the harm done by voter fraud to the state it occurs in, rather than possibly changing the outcome of the election.

90 posted on 11/13/2016 3:29:50 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: KarlInOhio
Maybe they should give each state ten times the number of electors they now have, but require the electors to be divided as evenly as possible in accordance with the popular vote in that state.

That would confine the harm done by voter fraud to the state it occurs in, rather than possibly changing the outcome of the election.

91 posted on 11/13/2016 3:29:50 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Shady

Sociology: Simple things made complicated by people with way too much time on their hands.


92 posted on 11/13/2016 3:32:25 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: mdittmar

Hell, no.


93 posted on 11/13/2016 3:50:36 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: mdittmar

Remind them this is a REPUBLIC, not a mob ruled Democracy.


94 posted on 11/13/2016 4:08:00 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: mdittmar

They didn’t care four years ago.


95 posted on 11/13/2016 4:08:50 PM PST by Luke21
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To: mdittmar

The Bolshies can abolished the Electoral College when they win it, and, can prove that dead people and illegals have not voted, at which point, I doubt it will be necessary.


96 posted on 11/13/2016 4:24:46 PM PST by depressed in 06 (I'm going to have to come up with a new tag line.)
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To: mdittmar

It appears that the Electoral College has become a last line of defense against institutionalized election fraud.


97 posted on 11/13/2016 4:46:21 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: mdittmar

O-nay Ay-way.


98 posted on 11/13/2016 4:53:01 PM PST by windsorknot
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How about one county, one vote?


99 posted on 11/13/2016 4:53:35 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Could you imagine the ridiculous government that would be constructed by the “brightest” progressives in the country? How crazy a country would that be?


100 posted on 11/13/2016 5:24:11 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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