Posted on 03/18/2023 12:30:10 PM PDT by thegagline
“.... Question: If it’s one man, one vote, then why do we still have the Electoral College on the federal level? ....”
A Supreme Court ruling can’t undo the Constitution! The Electoral College is in the text. To get rid of it in an obvious fashion would take an amendment. They’ve been whittling away at it but without an amendment the text is always there, and it can be recovered. The ruling by the activist court was aimed at the states who in the Supreme Courts mind (Warren) were discriminating against minorities with this vestige of republicanism.
I agree I think voting for governor ought to be by county. Also, I think state senators should be chosen by county! Some states like WV (55 counties) arguably have too many counties or counties with a very small population. However, that’s the state’s business not the federal government. As long as all county residents have the same free unfettered access to vote the Feds should have no say!
So, for example, Georgia used a "county unit" system in determining who won the Democratic primary (back when everyone was a Democrat).
All 159 counties were classified according to population into one of three categories: urban, town, and rural. Urban counties were the 8 most populous; town counties were the next 30 in population size; and rural counties constituted the remaining 121. Based upon this classification, each county received unit votes in statewide primaries. The urban counties received six unit votes each, the town counties received four unit votes each, and the rural counties received two unit votes each.
The court eventually overturned that because the most populous urban county could have a hundred times more votes than the three smallest counties, yet carry equal weight in the election. Many more states elected one or both houses of their legislature based on town or county lines, rather than with districts of equal population size. These were also overturned, but this did not affect the federal Senate and Electoral College, which were mandated by the federal Constitution.
And I think that goes to the heart of the NC lawsuit.
But I appreciate the mature responses, unlike what some on here put out.
Interesting.
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