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This Team Thinks They Can Fix the Electoral College by 2024

7 pointsby caralmost 3 years ago

3 comments

AnimalMuppetalmost 3 years ago
First: This assumes that the EC <i>needs</i> fixing. That&#x27;s... not a universally held belief. And those who don&#x27;t share that belief won&#x27;t agree that this is actually a fix.<p>Second: Are you <i>trying</i> to create another &quot;alternate slates of electors&quot; situation? Because this is likely to do so.<p>Third: This is going to get thrown to a court test. It would be really nice if that court test were <i>before</i> a presidential election was at stake. Unfortunately, the courts do not like &quot;hypothetical&quot; suits.<p>And the candidates need to know before the election. If you&#x27;re campaigning for the total popular vote, you&#x27;d campaign differently than if you were campaigning to win certain states.<p>Fourth: To my inexpert eye, it looks like there&#x27;s no additional adoptation since 2020.<p>Oh, yeah: (2020).
quantifiedalmost 3 years ago
This team is on drugs if it thinks that it can convince the leadership that&#x27;s been banking on population-minority&#x2F;electoral-majority to go along with this. All the recent vote-handling adjustments lately to steer a few thousand here and there in battleground states would be at risk.<p>If they succeed at fixing it, mind you, I&#x27;ll happily pay for whatever they&#x27;re taking.
matt321almost 3 years ago
doesn&#x27;t need fixing. People in California should not have disproportionate control over people in Wyoming due to their population.
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