The Electoral College is not only unfair to the millions of voters whose votes don’t matter because they are cast in heavily partisan states, it’s also dangerous. In the last election, Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes. Yet because of our arcane Electoral College system, the election came down to much, smaller margins in just a handful of swing states. Those margins were small enough to tempt Donald Trump to try throwing the election through the shenanigans now being investigated by the House Select Committee and the Justice Department.
By reducing the margin of victory to such small numbers, the Electoral College makes our presidential elections much more vulnerable to tampering — just one more reason among many that we should get rid of it.
Another letter writer who appears to have missed last week’s letter from Mark Krvavica, saying in one sentence why there is an EC. If Mr. Mazel, or anyone bellyaching about the EC, doesn’t like it then they should do something about it. Good luck, since hundreds (maybe closer to a thousand) of attempts has been made with zero success because smaller states won’t vote away their “fair share” in electing a President.
Good luck amending the Constitution on this one - thankfully enough Americans don't support this idea for good reason. Would we really want to become the "United States of California and New York?
Ed: Why don't you want Republican votes in California to be counted towards the total? Now, they are discarded, as are Democratic votes in Texas and the like for most states. What's the advantage of that, considering all the negatives associated with the EC I outlined the other day?
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Another letter writer who appears to have missed last week’s letter from Mark Krvavica, saying in one sentence why there is an EC. If Mr. Mazel, or anyone bellyaching about the EC, doesn’t like it then they should do something about it. Good luck, since hundreds (maybe closer to a thousand) of attempts has been made with zero success because smaller states won’t vote away their “fair share” in electing a President.
Terence Y: "The Mark Krvavica letter"? What a joke! Pure nonsense! Do you really mean you take such BS seriously?
Good luck amending the Constitution on this one - thankfully enough Americans don't support this idea for good reason. Would we really want to become the "United States of California and New York?
Ed: Why don't you want Republican votes in California to be counted towards the total? Now, they are discarded, as are Democratic votes in Texas and the like for most states. What's the advantage of that, considering all the negatives associated with the EC I outlined the other day?
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