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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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
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
Only two (maybe three) states would benefit by removing the electoral college. Every other state would lose.
This is going nowhere.
She is about to lose it all, so she is trying to propose an outrage Democrats want as a treat the way Democrats are pushing for reparations for slavery, despite there being no slaves in America.
Hey Boxer, you useless twit, how about we Californians take a popular vote on whether your yearly income plus net worth be split amongst us?
Non starter. Would not get 3/4 of states.
Changing the electoral system will take a constitutional amendment and not a bill from a senator or congressman. Just fact.
In any case, Clinton won the state race in California. She just lost it in more places than she won it. She lost 30-20 in states. She won 3 large states to Trump’s 7 large states.
She lost in electors 228-306, I believe.
Every state not called California, New York, or Florida will oppose this measure. They would have no influence at all.
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.
The electoral college was brilliant innovation of our founders, insuring that small states would still get a voice in the election.
Our Constitution was written by brilliant men and if followed, would have prevented the Kenayaneisan Usurpation.
Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen. He told us he was born a British subject as a result of his foreign national father.
Saw that after my reply went out. Communication lag sucks ...
In truth, I'm actually surprised that BB proposed this as a Constitutional Amendment. I wasn't aware that she understood the Constitution at all.
this is good ad on why the electoral college is necessary.
Dumb woman Boxer thinks this can be changed by a Bill in Congress, even if it is signed by POTUS.
Silly B
“...that does not reflect our modern society...”
Ah and there it is. The Electoral College puts brakes on their desire to remake the U.S. in their image. It means the Constitution will continue to mean something and act as a bulwark against their attempt to seize power and crush those not in line with the New Order.
Yeah, California would love to decide all elections. Not going to happen.
California Version of “This land is Your Land.”
This land is your land
This land’s not my land
From your broken borders
To your Hollywood hoarders
From your polluted rivers
To your moral sinners
That land was made by you
not me.
Oh I have rambled
And followed the footsteps
From your gay hunkies
To your everywhere junkies
From your social programs
To your traffic logjams
That land was made by you
not me
As I went walking
Your potholed freeways
I saw above me
your smoggy skyways
The thing I was prayin
Was that your stayin
Because that land was made by you
not me.
Actually, she did. Kamala Harris, who is even further to the left than Boxer, was elected to replace her.
It takes 2/3 of both Houses of Congress to send an Amendment to the states. Good luck with all of that.
Just have California and New York allocate EVs according to congressional district like Maine and Nebraska do.
Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer.
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