Posted on 11/15/2016 11:37:14 AM PST by 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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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.
Source: Calif. Sen. to Introduce Bill to Eliminate Electoral College | NBC Bay Area er | NBCBayArea on Facebook
Nope
Nothing could be more unconstitutional...unless Chief Justice Roberts finds some way to determine that this is actually a “tax”.
I wonder if Hillary won and trump was fighting to end the electoral oh never mind
Normally I would say, “Congress cannot pass legislation that is contrary to the Constitution.” But we have seen how that goes.
If we still followed the Constitution, we would need an Amendment.
Good luck with that, beotch!
A stunt to impress the Cali voters, the wine and cheese crowd. She knows it’s going nowhere.
And when the next President they don’t want is elected by popular vote, idiots like Boxer will discover something new. We’ll call it...The Electoral College and petition to get it introduced.
Can’t these morons just accept that they lost?
We did.
He was exactly right. But we don't live in a democracy. We live in a republic.
The EC is great for a republic.
IT WOULD TAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF A MAJORITY OF STATES PLUS CONGRESS TO DROP THIS OUT OF THE CONSTITUTION !
Um...no.
Get rid of the Senate, if you’re so worried. It under-represents populous states. Start by resigning. You have to make a stand.
Someone should attach a requirement for voters to have 2 forms of legal ID, proving citizenship and residence to the bill. That would kill it for the Dems.
God, Thanks for not allowing Hillary to win but we really still need your help.
Boxer is a senile smug leftist idiot, who doesn’t have the slightest clue as to how our government or constitution works.
Boxer. It figures. It’s easier to get elected than to get hired.
Ohhhhh, you racist.
So California gets no votes if they send no electors.
Bill is a laugh. Boxer is delusional
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