Politico has this very thorough article by Election Law Professor Ned Foley, about the uncertainties of the 2016 presidential election, relative to the role of presidential electors, and also the role of Congress.
The article does not mention this, but Congress has always counted the votes of “disobedient” presidential electors. It even counted the 2004 electoral vote in which one absent-minded Minnesota presidential elector, a Democrat, voted for John Edwards for President. That same elector also voted for Edwards for Vice-President. No one knows which Minnesota presidential elector did that, because in Minnesota, at least back in 2004, electors used secret ballots. In most states the electors do not use secret ballots.
The Electoral College is like living in CA on top of a earthquake fault line, in a super dry forest in a dry lightning storm and/or on a flood plain with a hurricane coming — and hoping for the best. LUNACY risks.
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Abolish the E.C.
Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the USA.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V — i.e. to get NONPARTISAN USA Presidents, State Governors, etc. and ALL nonpartisan Fed, State and Local judges.
Secret Electoral College ballots cast by people (presumably, but who knows…maybe they use chickens like the one who plays Tic-tac-toe in NYC’s Chinatown) who no more than handful of Minnesotans could actually name.
What a fine system of electing a president.
We should do surgery like that.
Patient: “Hey wait a minute, before you cut me with that scalpel – who the hell are you?
Man with scalpel: “I’m Jeff”
Patient: “But where’s Dr. Schmidt?”.
Man with scalpel: “Oh he’ll be along soon enough. I put in a call for him. But you can trust me for now.”
Patient: “Why should I trust you? I don’t even KNOW you.”
Man with scalpel: “Good point. You shouldn’t know me. Actually, I’m Bert…wink wink, nod nod. OK, then…let’s get the anesthesia started, shall we?”
Is it actually a violation of the 12th Amendment to vote for the same person for both offices?
Not so long as that person isn’t an inhabitant of the same state as the elector.
Article on extended voting time. If you are IN LINE at the time the polls were suppose to close you can vote but if you get there later than close time no vote.