Calif. Sen. to Introduce Bill to Eliminate Electoral College

NBC Bay Area ^ | 11/15 | Jessica Rice

[nickcarraway]

"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is slated to introduce legislation Tuesday which would eliminate the Electoral College, so presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote.

Boxer is expected to introduce the bill when the Senate comes into session Tuesday.

This move is in response to Donald Trump's presidential victory last week. The president-elect won the presidency through the Electoral College, although Hillary Clinton is leading the popular vote by nearly a million votes, a statement from Boxer's office read.

Trump won the presidency by securing at least 306 Electoral College votes while Hillary Clinton recieved 228 with two states still left to call, according to NBC News.

"When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.

Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote.

"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."

Four years ago, Trump called the Electoral College "a disaster for a democracy," in a tweet sent on Nov. 6, 2012.

Yet Tuesday morning, the president-elect sent two tweets conveying his support for the Electoral College.

"If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily," he said.

In a follow up tweet he said: "The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!"

If Boxer's amendment were to pass, it would amend the U.S. Constitution, and "would take effect when ratified by three-fourths of states within seven years after its passage in the U.S. Congress," a statement from Boxer's office read.

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[generally]

The electoral college should introduce a bill to eliminate California.

(yes, I know that statement is absurd. But so is this proposed bill.)

[generally]

Waaaah!

We didn’t get our own way.

Whenever this happens, the left wants to change the rules. Then when they can’t win with the new rules, they want to change them again. Look for the democrats to propose bills to curb executive orders. They were great when 0vomit did it, but now if Trump uses EOs, they will suddenly be a bad thing.

[VRWC For Truth]

Self-serving bitch! ...

[ridesthemiles]

FIRST: Count ALL of the votes-—

ADD ALL of the absentee votes—

ADD The MILITARY absentee votes-—

REMOVE all the votes by the illegals—

REMOVE all the votes of gthe dead person-—

Remove all the double votes...

CLARIFY the ‘provisional ballots.....

NOW- tell me who ‘won’ the popular vote.

We have the best chance ever of cleaning up the voter rolls & making sure people don’t multiple vote or vote from the grave, etc.

When that is accomplished, let’s see how the ‘popular vote’ compares to the Electoral College vote.

Meanwhile, isn’t this the last 47 days of Boxer being a Senator? She can STFU. She has been dumb as a box of rocks for all of her life. Go away....

Her only chance to have a national forum in the future is if she & others take the west coast (only) of Calif & make a new country out of it.

Go ahead, Boxer, we won’t miss you.