Columbus Dispatch Carries Op-Ed in Support of Tenth Circuit Opinion About Presidential Elector Freedom

The Columbus Dispatch has this op-ed by law professor Mark Brown, in support of the Tenth Circuit decision in Baca v Griswold. That decision, issued on August 20, said states can’t fire presidential electors for voting for someone other than the candidate who won the most popular votes in that state.


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Columbus Dispatch Carries Op-Ed in Support of Tenth Circuit Opinion About Presidential Elector Freedom — 13 Comments

  1. Abolish the super-timebomb EC minority rule gerrymander *system* –

    ZERO learned from the 750,000 DEAD in 1861-1866 due to the 40 pct election of 1860 Lincoln ???
    —-
    PR and AppV and TOTSOP

  2. Yes, a duopoly rigged popular election is an almost perfect solution to not bothering to vote at all.
    The Electoral College needs to be reformed not abolished. The reform involves enlarging the size of the U S House of Representatives which would increase the number of Electors AND require that Electors be elected by district instead of state-wide winner take all as is done in most states.

  3. @ D Frank Robinson:

    I agree that enlarging the size of the House is the easiest way to make the Electoral College more proportional to population. I think one great advantage of the Electoral College is that it allows each state to choose whatever voting method it wants to pick them. This gives states a wide latitude in deciding whether it wants to use plurality, by district, ranked choice, approval, proportional, cumulative, or range voting. Any national popular vote plan would compel every state to use the same method.

  4. Another way to make the Electoral College, and US Senate, more proportional to population is to divide larger states into smaller one. IMO, any state that contains more than 5% of the total US population should be encourage to split. Using this rule of thumb, NY and Florida would each become 2 states, Texas 3, and California 3 or 4.

  5. WZ —

    A higher or Lower PCT of RED communist USA Senators ???

    ABOLISH the ANTI-Democracy minority rule USA Senate and EC.


    PR and AppV and TOTSOP

  6. @ Demo Rep:

    You cannot abolish the US Senate without the unanimous consent of EVERY state. The Constitution is very specific about that. Not gonna happen

  7. @ Casual Observer:

    Dividing up states doesn’t require a constitutional amendment. IMO, if DC is given statehood, which the Democrats have proposed, it will set off a competition to divide states to get more Senate seats.

  8. WALTER- Perhaps a constitutional amendment is not required but each state would have to hold a plebiscite and agree to boundaries (no small task when the entire purpose is to gerrymander new senate seats) then each new state has to petition congress for admission and hope that congress approves. Like I said… DOA.

  9. WZ –

    the 1777 Art Confed required unam for Amdts

    >>> IGNORED by the 1787 conspirators.

    NO shortage of ANTI-Democracy MATH MORONS who LOVE ANTI-Democracy minority rule [ TYRANT MONARCH / OLIGARCH ] machinations —

    – IE armies of MORONS brainwashed in rotted publik skooools since early 1800s.


    History note – the 1775-1781 USA Congress had ONE vote for each State — almost FATAL in Am Rev War.

    2 USA Senators per State – even more FATAL — N-O-W

    = 2 Blowhard MORON commies/nazis from each of the many SMALL below Ave pop States.

    2019-2020 USA GOVT MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER MATH, 7 MAY 2019 V2

    GERRYMANDER LOWLITES MINI SUMMARY —

    A. 30.3 PERCENT OF THE VOTERS ELECTED 218 D USA REPS OF 435 TOTAL IN 2018.

    B. 19.2 PERCENT OF THE VOTERS ELECTED 50 R USA SENATORS OF 100 TOTAL IN 2014-2018.

    C. 25.7 PERCENT OF THE VOTERS ELECTED R PREZ TRUMP IN 2016 – 270 of 538 ECV – 28 STATES + MECD2.

    ALL State legis and many local legis bodies are mini-copies of the USA H Reps. — worse in top 2 primary areas.

    Much, much, much worse extremist primary math in all of the above.

  10. It sounds like Demo Rep would like a Constitutional Convention that simply ignored the Constitution and wrote its own ratification requirement. That won’t end well, IMO

  11. WZ –
    see the 4 July 1776 DOI – esp para. 2

    LOTS of the Brit regime stuff ignored or deemed super-evil and super-dangerous — IE INTOLERABLE —

    esp the Brit monarchy and H Lords oligarchy and severe minority rule gerrymander H Commons.

    How many State Const Amdts require mere majority YES approval by the SOVEREIGN voters ???

    Political *science* has advanced since 1776-1787 – as with chemistry, physics, etc.

    PR and AppV [pending Condorcet] and TOTSOP

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