A bill, SB 1282, is pending in the Pennsylvania legislature to provide that each U.S. House district should choose its own presidential elector. According to the web page Keepparelevant.com, it appears that the bill is shy of one vote to pass the House. The web page is opposed to the idea. It assumes, logically, that all Democrats in the legislature will oppose the bill. The web page believes that eleven House Republicans won’t vote for the bill either, which would mean it would lack one vote of a majority. See here.
Too bad. If you want to reduce the money being used for Presidential elections, voting at the district level for the EC could actually work to reduce election costs. Better representation of the country to boot.
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What “election costs” and how would this plan reduce them? And why would “representation of the country” be any better? We would still have only one president who would represent all of us.
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How many presidential campaigns end with anything in their “war chests” besides an overdraft? Do you really think they would spend less just because the battle would be over “swing CD’s” instead of “swing states?”
The more granular the allocation of electors becomes, the more likely that electoral fraud will be perpetrated to win the ones “in play.”
Is that better “representation” for all of us?
1/2 votes x 1/2 gerrymander areas (States or districts) = about 25 percent ANTI-Democracy indirect minority rule.
See the now about $ 18 TRILLION (repeat TRILLION) in U.S.A./ State-local debts since 1929.
Abolish the timebomb Electoral College and the even worse U.S.A. minority rule Senate.
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P.R. and App.V.
#3 With a single national popular vote count, fraudulent voting can be distributed on vulnerable areas. If I wanted to pad 1000s of votes on the total, I would go to an area where it was expected that a candidate would get 80% of the vote. Who would notice if he ended up with 85%?
See the 1880 election for example.
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Um…poppycock.
See Ohio 2004 for example. Which approach do you think would have been more cost efficient? “Distributing” the fraud across myriad voting districts to produce the three million vote cushion Bush had over Kerry, or concentrating efforts on Ohio, as was clearly done, to sew up the election under the decrepit winner take all EC system?
But it is interesting to note that you, a noted Republican tool, are already scheming on how to steal elections under NPV. Your comrades are surely very proud of you and appreciative of your efforts.