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Barbara Boxer Introduces Bill to End Electoral College (Dream on Losers)
Townhall.com ^ | November 15, 2016 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 11/15/2016 1:22:46 PM PST by Kaslin

After Donald Trump won despite losing the popular vote count, liberals everywhere were (once again) demanding an end to the electoral college. Most of it was all talk. After all, how can we possibly change a system that has worked for over 200 years? 

Well, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has taken the next step: She is introducing a bill to put an end to the electoral college once and for all.

"In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," said Senator Boxer on her Senate website. "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. This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency. The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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."

While Trump tweeted in 2012 that the electoral college system is a "disaster," he said on Monday that the system, put in place by our Founding Fathers, is fair because it compels presidential candidates to visit smaller states that would otherwise be ignored.

Boxer is expected to put forward her legislation as the Senate convenes on Tuesday.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; barbaraboxer; electoralcollege; trumptransition
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To: Kaslin
RE: Barbara Boxer Introduces Bill to End Electoral College

United States Constitution

Article 2

Section 1

Paragraph 2

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

Amendment 12

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;

The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;

The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.

The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

What does this mean?

If you want to Amend the Constitution you've got to use a:

wait for it...

wait for it...

wait for it...

Constitutional Amendment.

41 posted on 11/15/2016 1:36:04 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Kaslin

I thought that crazy witch retired.


42 posted on 11/15/2016 1:36:08 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Kaslin; All

With all due respect to Sen. Boxer, low-information Boxer probably does not understand the following. Her bill must essentially be a proposed amendment to the Constitution to the states to repeal electoral college.


43 posted on 11/15/2016 1:36:10 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Kaslin

Barbara’s daughter is/was married to one of Hillary’s brothers, i believe.


44 posted on 11/15/2016 1:36:20 PM PST by ronniesgal (hey move on over, snowflakes. the adults are in charge again!!!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Hey Babs, it was the electoral college system that saved this country from rouges like you.
It worked just as the founders wanted.. bummer huh?


45 posted on 11/15/2016 1:36:25 PM PST by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: nonsporting

I was tooling around on Netflix last night and ran across the Chelsea Handler show from last week, taped after the election. Her guest was none other than Barbara Boxer herself. Though it would be fun watching liberals melting down (it was) so I watched it.

Of course the topic of the Electoral College came up, and she admitted it would take a Constitutional amendment. This means her bill is just grandstanding and will go no where. The media will push it and then hammer talking points about Trump/Republicans blocking or killing the bill, the useful idiot SJW’s will not know different and be, well... useful idiots.

Babs knows full well a bill cannot do it. She also knows what she is doing.


46 posted on 11/15/2016 1:36:42 PM PST by TruBluKentuckian
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To: Kaslin
"When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes"

BS Boxer!

Take out the MILLIONS of votes cast by FOREIGNERS and many more multiple votes cast by 1 person, cast by dead people and on and on and she doesn't even get the popular vote!

Claim: 3 million votes cast by non-citizens (2016 election)

Noncitizens, Voting Violations and U.S. Elections

47 posted on 11/15/2016 1:37:08 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Gamecock

Maybe someone can send her a copy of a 7th grade Civics book.

She seems to be confused on some issues there.


48 posted on 11/15/2016 1:37:43 PM PST by Deo volente ("Our Independence Day is at hand, and it arrives finally on November 8th." Donald Trump)
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To: Bitsy
She did not run for reelection. Kamala Harris won.

I guess she wants to inflict on more damage before she leaves

49 posted on 11/15/2016 1:38:59 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Oh, just shut up and SING, Babs!

Oops! Wrong, ‘Babs!’ Hard to tell the loonies apart when they all use the same name, LOL!


50 posted on 11/15/2016 1:39:13 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Kaslin
A pipe dream by Liberals. A popular vote election would result in by parties focusing on the largest States (NY, TX, CA) and the big cities (e.g., NYC, Chicago, and Los Angeles). The rest of the nation would be "flyover country".

The Founding Fathers were wise in establishing the Electoral College as a way to make sure all of the country would have a say in who is elected President. The Electoral College, as amended, has served the People well and so it should remain.

51 posted on 11/15/2016 1:39:14 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Kaslin

Is that idiot still here. I thought she was retiring.

And probably someone has beat me to it when I say, You can’t just write a bill to get rid of the electoral college. Its constitutional.


52 posted on 11/15/2016 1:42:03 PM PST by poinq
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To: Talisker

Boxer once again proves she is dumb as a brick.


53 posted on 11/15/2016 1:42:27 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Kaslin

Just as soon as we have VOTER ID and VERIFICATION.

Dream on idiot!


54 posted on 11/15/2016 1:42:43 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin
Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts.

Actually, if the desired process is one that maximizes the possibility that a single person, by their one vote, can determine the outcome of an election, the Electoral College is it.

Math Against Tyranny.

55 posted on 11/15/2016 1:43:03 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

I guess she wants to inflict on more damage before she leaves
I guess she wasn’t as popular as she thought she was. She will go down in history. She was here today and oops she’s gone. Yes. I just couldn’t watch her on TV - her or nancy Pelosi.


56 posted on 11/15/2016 1:43:23 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: Kaslin

An utterly moronic notion, which could only come from the sort of intellectual mediocrity the democrats are putting up for office these days.


57 posted on 11/15/2016 1:44:05 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Democrats hate too much

The puppet’s poopular votes came from the graveyard and the imagination of the DNC. Now they’re going to have a CAIR member running the DNC and they wonder why they lost?


58 posted on 11/15/2016 1:46:35 PM PST by doc maverick (I)
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To: Kaslin

It is part of the Constitution. It would take a new amendment to remove it. That would require a 2/3 majority of states to ratify it. Dream on Barbie.


59 posted on 11/15/2016 1:46:46 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: Kaslin

Gasping for air.

It’s over for her Jan 6.


60 posted on 11/15/2016 1:47:07 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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