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Posted: 7/26/2024 11:43:45 PM EDT
So it is that time again every four years we have to remind people how the president and vice president are actually elected in this country ,this great United States of America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College


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Link Posted: 7/26/2024 11:50:32 PM EDT
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It’s that way for a reason.  If you don’t know or don’t like it, you’re uneducated.


Now repeal the 17th Amendment!
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 12:10:07 AM EDT
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Do we need to worry about faithless electors or is that just a boogyman?
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 12:51:54 AM EDT
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I wish we had something similar at the state level
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 1:21:12 AM EDT
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Yup.  The country would be so much different (and for the better.)
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 1:35:23 AM EDT
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19th.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 1:42:49 AM EDT
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It's that way for a reason.  If you don't know or don't like it, you're uneducated.


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Link Posted: 7/27/2024 2:43:22 AM EDT
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Amen, brother!

First post nails it
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 3:05:55 AM EDT
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The original idea was that Electors are free agents.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 3:53:17 AM EDT
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Ditto on that. Calif is being overrun, by the Dems, and there is nothing that can be legally done about it.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 3:55:30 AM EDT
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The uninformed or actually, the media is intentionally blaming the EC for the rise of DJT #45, and they wanted to do away with it, a bunch of talking headings, talking smack.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 7:37:25 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/27/2024 7:43:36 AM EDT
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Among other protections and benefits, the electoral college confines any cheating to the state in which the cheating occurs, rather than having one state's cheating affect the entire country.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 10:36:37 AM EDT
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Supreme Court killed states copying the Federal model in Reynolds v. Sims
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 10:42:32 AM EDT
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Selecting people at random (sortition) is the original democracy, and I would much prefer that to elections.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 10:50:04 AM EDT
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Get both.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 10:58:22 AM EDT
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And repeal the 16th. Replace with amendments that: balance the fed budget, tie the size of the house of reps to the population, term limits for all, and reduce the power of the executive branch.
Link Posted: 7/27/2024 11:03:53 AM EDT
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So it is that time again every four years we have to remind people how the president and vice president are actually elected in this country ,this great United States of America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College


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Link Posted: 7/27/2024 11:14:45 AM EDT
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Pssshhhhffffft, YEAH! This state definitely needs it.
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I wish state legislative branch still elected congressmen.
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