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Calif. Sen. to Introduce Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
NBC Bay Area ^ | 11/15 | Jessica Rice

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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: revivaljoe

“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.


21 posted on 11/15/2016 11:42:19 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: revivaljoe
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.
22 posted on 11/15/2016 11:42:32 AM PST by mmichaels1970 (Hillary lied over four coffins.)
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To: nickcarraway

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


23 posted on 11/15/2016 11:42:40 AM PST by BRL
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To: LouieFisk

i’d settle for one form of legal ID.


24 posted on 11/15/2016 11:42:48 AM PST by Spaghetti Man
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To: nickcarraway
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.

25 posted on 11/15/2016 11:42:54 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Mr. Douglas

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


26 posted on 11/15/2016 11:43:13 AM PST by mastertex
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To: nickcarraway

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

Just go away you commie bitch


27 posted on 11/15/2016 11:43:13 AM PST by Navin Johnson
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To: nickcarraway

This happens every election.


28 posted on 11/15/2016 11:43:48 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Genoa

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


29 posted on 11/15/2016 11:43:52 AM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Genoa

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


30 posted on 11/15/2016 11:44:13 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: nickcarraway

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.


31 posted on 11/15/2016 11:44:45 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: nickcarraway

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


32 posted on 11/15/2016 11:45:08 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: nickcarraway
If Boxer's amendment were to pass, it would amend the U.S. Constitution,...

Heh heh heh. Ok "Senator".

33 posted on 11/15/2016 11:45:18 AM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: mmichaels1970
A Constitutional Amendment cannot be unconstitutional.

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

FU Barbara Boxer.

34 posted on 11/15/2016 11:45:29 AM PST by NorthMountain (My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
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To: nickcarraway

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.....


35 posted on 11/15/2016 11:45:41 AM PST by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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To: nickcarraway

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


36 posted on 11/15/2016 11:45:47 AM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: nickcarraway

This nonsense only comes up when democrats lose.


37 posted on 11/15/2016 11:46:40 AM PST by AU72
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To: NorthMountain
A Constitutional Amendment cannot be unconstitutional.

I know. I corrected myself in post #10. And I agree with everything else you said.
38 posted on 11/15/2016 11:46:50 AM PST by mmichaels1970 (Hillary lied over four coffins.)
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To: nickcarraway
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.

39 posted on 11/15/2016 11:47:46 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: mewzilla
How about we repeal the 17th Amendment first...

Yeah. Also the 16th and 19th.

40 posted on 11/15/2016 11:47:55 AM PST by NorthMountain (My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
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