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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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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[LouieFisk]

“IT WOULD TAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF A MAJORITY OF STATES PLUS CONGRESS TO DROP THIS OUT OF THE CONSTITUTION !”
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Forget educating Barbara Boxer.

[mmichaels1970]

IT WOULD TAKE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF A MAJORITY OF STATES PLUS CONGRESS TO DROP THIS OUT OF THE CONSTITUTION !

Sure would. And that's precisely what she's trying to do. Ridiculous stunt on her part as it has absolutely zero chance of happening.

[BRL]

Hey California.... Do a maine thing and split YOUR electoral votes..... Bwahaha

[Spaghetti Man]

i’d settle for one form of legal ID.

[windsorknot]

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.

Good luck with that.

[mastertex]

Boxer is a total FOOL.....no way Bitch...

[Navin Johnson]

Still think all of us fly over voters are stupid, isn’t that right BB?

Just go away you commie bitch

[bgill]

This happens every election.

[b4me]

they should be personally charged or their salary docked every time they submit useless stuff. Wasting time and tax payer money!

[LouieFisk]

“Ohhhhh, you racist.”
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Dang it! I forgot only white people can get ID cards!!!!!
:D

[A CA Guy]

Nope, but we need to purge the voter rolls of fraud and non-legal votes.
We also should have counted the 7 million or so uncounted mail in votes.

[mewzilla]

Note to Boxer: How about we repeal the 17th Amendment first...

[Mr.Unique]

If Boxer's amendment were to pass, it would amend the U.S. Constitution,...

Heh heh heh. Ok "Senator".

[NorthMountain]

A Constitutional Amendment cannot be unconstitutional.

That said, this is a spectacularly bad idea, coming from a spectacularly bad senator.

FU Barbara Boxer.

[walkingdead]

Popular vote is you and two wolves voting on what’s for dinner. In no way is that fair or right.......unless of course you are one of the wolves.....

[Ken H]

Good luck on getting 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the state legislatures to along with this.

[AU72]

This nonsense only comes up when democrats lose.

[mmichaels1970]

A Constitutional Amendment cannot be unconstitutional.

I know. I corrected myself in post #10. And I agree with everything else you said.

[Gay State Conservative]

OK...two-thirds vote of the House *and* Senate.Then,three quarters of the states's legislatures must approve.It's easy to see the states that The Former Twelfth Lady carried voting in favor.It's just as easy to see the ones (most of the ones,at least) that DJT carried voting against.

So that would be something like 20 aye,30 nay.

[NorthMountain]

How about we repeal the 17th Amendment first...

Yeah. Also the 16th and 19th.