Congressmember Steve Cohen introduced a proposed constitutional amendment earlier this month, to provide that the voters elect the President and Vice-President directly. It is HJRes 7. Here is the text. The preamble is interesting.
Congressmember Steve Cohen introduced a proposed constitutional amendment earlier this month, to provide that the voters elect the President and Vice-President directly. It is HJRes 7. Here is the text. The preamble is interesting.
section 2. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most populous branch of the legislature of the State; although Congress may establish uniform age qualifications.
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FATAL- The RED communist States (CA, MA, etc.) will be having foreign RED communists [those *citizens of the world*] voting for Prez.
ONE more machination to rig election RESULTS.
The scheme is NOT NONPARTISAN = more FATAL.
This congressman is a socialist. He, and others of his ilk, still never got over the fact that Donald Trump, by winning the popular vote in enough states with enough electoral votes, was elected instead of Crooked Hillary.
It has no chance of being ratified. It needs 290 votes in the House and 67 in the Republican-controlled Senate (that’s two-thirds of each house) before it can be set to the state legislatures for ratification (three-quarters, or 38 of 50 states).
Their best hope may be that proposed Article V Convention, or Con-Con, which I think,will almost be certainly hijacked by globalists and their statist allies.
EVERY Prez since 1832 has been elected by a MINORITY of the voters —
1/2 or less votes x EC gerrymander areas having a bare majority of the EC votes = 1/4 or less CONTROL.
IE – leftwing minority vs rightwing minority since 1868.
See the 750,000 plus DEAD in 1861-1865 due to the 39-40 percent election of Lincoln in 1860 —
still paying the price in all sorts of racist machinations and systematic destruction of MANY older urban / suburban areas.
Democracy vs monarchy/oligarchy —
ZERO new in 6,000 plus years
“section 4. The pair of candidates having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected.”
The plurality vote problem remains. You could still have a minority-vote President.
“section 3. Each elector shall cast a single vote ”
The possibility of approval, or ranked choice voting is excluded.
The Democrats only care about democracy only so long as that “democracy” is a semi-forced two-party system propped up by political intimidation and rigged electoral laws. They’re as bad as the GOP except with slightly different reasons and methods.
If you think voter fraud in Illinois and California is bad now, that will seem like small potatoes to when this Amendment becomes the law of the land. We all know this has almost exactly zero chance of being adopted, although it does give socialists and communists something to dream about, and hopefully to waste their time on so they don’t do any more damage than what they’ve already done post-WW2.
Section 5 would permit Congress to establish a direct primary and a runoff. Sections 3 and 4 are superfluous
A better approach would be to:
(1) Apportion presidential electors among the United States and its territories on the basis of citizen voting age population, with at least one elector per 50,000 such persons.
(2) Require popular election of presidential electors. Time, place, manner regulation by the States with a congressional override.
(3) Presidential electors meet as a single body to elect President by majority vote. If simultaneous communication is established, meetings may be physically separate.
(4) In case of presidential vacancy, Congress may arrange for interim president, until electors can meet to choose successor.
Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the USA.
NONPARTISAN AppV for all exec/judic offices – pending Condorcet.
SOME attack ads in ALL parts of the USA for Prez —
— perhaps even bankrupt some of usual suspect LOOTER gangs in Deficit City.
IE — return Devil City to real swamp city status circa 1925-1928 – keep Cool with Coolidge.