Posted on 10/19/2017 9:57:17 AM PDT by blueyon
A liberal-led push to overhaul the Electoral College could be moving from the op-ed pages to the courtroom, as a Harvard professor who flirted with a dark-horse Democratic presidential bid last year vows litigation to change the system.
Criticism of the Electoral College was resurgent in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss. Clinton recently said she wants the system "eliminated." The latest effort isn’t aimed at dismantling the structure entirely – but rather, the winner-take-all system used by 48 states in awarding electors, which ends up focusing presidential races on a handful of battlegrounds.
“With a winner-take-all, most of America is ignored,” professor Lawrence Lessig said in previewing his legal case – which, like any challenge to the Electoral College, faces a steep uphill climb.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
There is a 230 year old apparatus in place to change it.
Go for it.
If the American people allow the communists to pull this off, We the People, will be the BIG losers.
Why doesn’t the Left just come out and say they want the Constitution burned and anyone who disagrees put up the against the wall and shot? And do they have the power to do so?
‘I know I saw results from the 2000 election that said that counting EC votes by congressional district + 2 for the winner of the state’s total vote still had Bush winning.’
such a configuration would have tremendous impact on a state like Pennsylvania, or as they say, Alabama in between Philly and Pittsburg...18 CD’s 13 controlled by Pubs, 5 by Dems; instead of 20 EV’s for the Dems, they’d get 7 if they win the state...
In a nation built on INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, blocking a “tyranny of the majority” is a priority.
Washington DC should not have electoral votes, not being a state. The 23rd amendment gave them the number of EVs of the smallest state, but that is the opposite of what the Founders wanted. DC was supposed to be a capital district, not a state.
The only thing that will come out of this is the enrichment of scumbag lawyers.
Constitution?
Leftists don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution.
The states make their own rules how to determine the winner. It’s a state matter.
No court ruling is possible. The text of the Constitution is supreme law. The states cannot be forced to choose one way only to select electors.
-PJ
She didn’t have a problem with any part of the system when her perv husband became president.
Thank you for stating my thoughts.
“Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report used to be a big progressive.
He even had a show with The Young Turks! But now he's not a progressive. He has left the left. Why? Dave Rubin shares his story.”
Lessig, though, argues the system violates the 14th Amendment’s one-man-one-vote principle.
The flaw in this "professor's" argument is that electing the President is done by the states, not by the people.
-PJ
They want popular vote without voter I.D.
What an outstanding article. I've bookmarked it on my desktop computer and sent a link to my laptop for later bookmarking.
Reminded me of Hari Seldon's Psychohistory theories
(Isaac Asimov - Foundation series)
The objective is to have the states vote their delegates in relation to the popular vote within that state rather than all of the delegates going to the overall winner of the state. It would have the states divide the delegates proportionately rather than en-bloc.
They recognize that changing the constitution to effect the popular vote is hard so they hope to have the individual states move towards this goal by splitting the delegates in a manner that more closely follows the popular vote count.
A smart candidate campaigns to achieve the most electoral votes. Stupid and/or arrogant ones.....ones who are preordained by sheer godlike power, like her heinous, Hitlery, don’t find that necessary....and frankly, beneath them.
Any state that wants to can do so. It is entirely up to the state legislatures how to appoint their electors and even whether to have any sort of election to do it.
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