No, just make it honor the wishes of the people, and bring democracy back to the USA.
Molly Ivins – Electoral College
There is a new move promoted by the Campaign for a National Popular Vote to end-run all the problems normally associated with abolishing the Electoral College. This is a state-by-state effort to instruct each state’s electors to vote for whichever candidate gets the most popular votes nationwide. Look at 2004: A switch of 60,000 votes in Ohio would have thrown the entire election to John Kerry, despite the fact that George Bush was 3 million votes ahead nationwide.
The Campaign for a National Popular Vote has a dandy new approach. Instead of trying to amend the Constitution through a long, difficult process that can and will be stalled by small states, the campaign proposes a simpler, elegant solution. According to the Constitution, each state legislature can instruct its own electors to cast their votes however the state decides, usually as winner-take-all for whichever candidate carries the state. But there is no reason a state legislature cannot instruct its electors to vote for whomever wins the popular vote.
Let’s do it… I am so there. Follow this link for details on the plan and how to avoid the Constitutional Amendment process. Basically, it boils down to making the Electoral College yes-men to the nationwide popular vote by way of state law.
The Electoral College is the one thing the Founding Fathers got wrong. I have always believed that since the first day I heard of its existence.
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