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Editor,
This is in response to the Jan. 22 letter from Joe Guttenbeil. Just like Mr. Guttenbeil, I want fairness in voting, but, just as it seems unfair for the larger states to have undue influence over who should be president, it’s equally unfair to give a small minority of states an oversized influence in national Presidential elections which is what the Electoral College does. How is this best for the entire country?
My take on this is that what’s best for the entire country must be what is best for the majority of the residents of the entire country based on one person, one vote. This gives the voice of every voter equal weight regardless of what state they live in.
Removing the Electoral College and replacing it with the popular vote would not be detrimental to the smaller states since each state regardless of size gets two senators to represent them in Congress. This puts them on an equal footing with senators from all the other states when it comes to day-to-day legislation. Larger states would still have more representatives in the House, but the influence of the House and the executive would be limited by the power of the Senate where every state has equal representation.
Let’s do away with the Electoral College and give every citizen a equal say in outcome of the presidential election.
David Crabbe
San Carlos
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It will be interesting to see how the breakup of the Republican party into two separate parties will play out with the Electoral College.
And interesting to see what happens to Democrats as more sensible moderates break with the far left wing of their party...
Mr. Crabbe, you say you want fairness in voting, but it’s obvious your letter doesn’t promote fairness. The founding fathers knew best when they established the Electoral College. BTW, if you’ve been reading the DJ in the past week, you’ll see many arguments for and against the EC, but inevitably, the arguments for the EC win.
Good morning, Terence
When blue states start failing financially and have to be bailed out by the feds, money... a lot of money... will be siphoned off those landlocked states that will have little to no influence in national elections if the Electoral College is eliminated.
I jumped into last week's discussion re: the Electoral College. Advocates for tossing it aside largely ignore the negative effects such a move would likely produce... plurality winners, chaos in Congress, single party rule and several others.
The advocates for a "winner take all" national election are staunch supporters for dismantling the 12th Amendment... and they will continue to oppose anything like an Electoral College until their candidate loses and they would benefit from counting votes state by state instead.
Now that voter fraud has been brought under control and made virtually inconsequential, and voter suppression doesn’t work as well as it used to, Republicans need the Electoral College to have any chance of putting their guy with minority popular votes into the WH, - regardless of how incompetent he may be.
When more than half of the country thinks its OK to tax the other guy, especially in California and New York, The Electoral College prevents those takers from taking over the entire country.
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