The much-publicized Pennsylvania bill to provide that each U.S. House district would elect its own presidential elector has been introduced, and is SB 1282. It has a hearing on Tuesday, October 4, in the Senate State Government Committee. The author, Senator Dominic Pileggi, is the leader of Senate Republicans, and Republicans have a 4-3 majority on the committee.
Even though the bill has been introduced, the bill still isn’t drafted, according to the legislature’s web page. Therefore, it is not known whether the bill will provide that candidates for presidential elector must live in their district, or whether the petition to get minor party and independent candidates on the ballot will be transformed from a statewide petition to a petition that is circulated within each district.
Thanks – Will be following this. Next step – eliminate names of presidential candidates and political parties from the ballot. Informed electors!
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I’m informed.
So how about just letting me select the president?
And I’ll be informed four years hence, as well. So appoint me for life.
And since I’m perfectly informed, there’s no need for other electors.
There…problem solved, thanks to Jeff!
How many other EVIL gerrymander State legislatures will copy the E.C. gerrymander district stuff ???
Gee — which gang of robot party hacks happened to win the most gerrymander U.S.A. Rep districts in 2010 ???
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True,
No problem. You should be free to run as a presidential elector – either in the primary/caucus of a ballot-qualified party, or as an independent or minor party elector via petitioning. You should also have a choice of running either as a district or “at-large” statewide elector. Your name would appear on the general election ballot followed by your home town, and that’s it.
Now get out there and start campaigning! No need to wait for your party to hold their convention. Campaign based on your principles.
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Not quite. I’m going to have a supra-elector run on my behalf. I’m also going to encourage the supra-elector to have a supra-elector-twice removed run on his behalf. They’ll all be very well informed, but they won’t tell anyone who they’re going to vote for for president. Actually, I’m not sure whether one of them or I will cast the vote. But I can promise you this. None of us will vote for any person who doesn’t promise not to reveal his or her true identity until he or she has been in office for at least a year.
Thanks again, Jeff.
@4 None of us will vote for any person who doesn’t promise not to reveal his or her true identity until he or she has been in office for at least a year.
You mean they would actually reveal their true identity at some point? That would be an improvement over the present situation
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If you’re talking about the current Capitulator in Chief, I agree with you 100%! If only we hadn’t known his name when we went to the polls, as Jeff suggests, and left the decision to a handful of people oh so much smarter than we.
Demo Rep,
I’m quite surprised that states haven’t tried an Electoral College like system when it comes to electing positions like Governor!
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I think we should have an electoral college for every elected office in the land. Just think of it – every town will be a college town.
If you’re talking about the current Capitulator in Chief, I agree with you 100%!
I can’t think of one (and certainly not in recent times) that this is not true of.
Remember Shrub’s “humble foreign policy” or his father’s “no new taxes” pledge? What about Ronald Reagan’s plan to slash and then eliminate the deficit? Bill Clinton’s “era of big government is over?” The list is endless.
As for Obama, I’ve hypothesized, only half in jest, that he actually literally is Shrub, following some plastic surgery courtesy of the CIA in Mexico. This would explain why so many policies have continued so seamlessly from one administration to the other, why Shrub did not suspend the 2008 elections to prevent himself and his cronies from being subjected to war crimes trials once he left office, while no preparations for such trials have taken place, and much else besides.
# 8 SCOTUS blew away the GA electoral college for Gov in circa 1963 — a blatant subversion of the Equal Protection Clause in 14th Amdt, Sec. 1.
The EVIL rotted regimes in places like Germany and Poland had electoral college stuff in the 1700s.
This AIN’T 1787 with EVIL know- it- all elite control freaks.
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