On February 17, the Nebraska Senate Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee heard SB 76. This is the bill that would change the system for electing presidential electors. Currently Nebraska lets each U.S. House district choose its own presidential elector. The bill would convert Nebraska to a winner-take-all system, now used by 48 other states.
This newspaper story says most witnesses testified against the bill. The only witness mentioned in the story who testified for it was the Republican Party state executive director.
What we need is to cut out the electors and let the MoC’s that the electors replace dictate government policy for themselves. Parliamentary systems are infinitely better than presidential ones, and people don’t seem to understand that. The mean approval rating of any politician in the eyes of their constituents is going to be higher if the constituency is smaller, so people will approve of their government more if it is run by these more localized officials than a single president elected by everyone in the entire country.
@ MCSUAP:
If you had enough votes for third party candidates for President such that no one got a majority of the electoral votes, then, by default, Congress would elect the President and Vice President. The electoral college is an amazingly flexible institution that is not deeply appreciated by Americans, because we are so fixated on the popular vote. It can effectively create a parliamentary system, if enough people choose to vote independently of the two party system.
But, what I really like about the electoral college is that it allows every state its own method of voting. Different states could have plurality, district, ranked choice, approval, proportional, or even legislative voting all simultaneously in the same election. We couldn’t do that without the electoral college.
ABOLISH THE SUPER-TIMEBOMB MINORITY RULE EC.
SEE 1860 MINORITY RULE ELECTION OF PREZ LINCOLN
RESULT – 750,000 D-E-A-D IN 1861-1866 (2011 ESTIMATE).
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ELECTOR-VOTER IN A-L-L OF USA STATES / DC / COLONIES —
USA CITIZEN, 18+ YEARS OLDE. PERIOD. NOOOO CRIMINAL/MENTAL STUFF.
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PR – LEGIS
NONPARTISAN APPV – EXECS/JUDICS
And, that’s another good thing about the electoral college; we don’t have to have a uniform national voter registration regimen.
Thanks for reminding me Demo-Rep.
CA+MA AND OTHER RED COMMIE STATES LOVE TO HAVE RED CHINA FOLKS VOTING FOR USA OFFICERS —
ESP VIA NPV SCHEME.
EC — A LATE DARK AGE SCHEME — USED TO *ELECT* OLDE KINGS IN GERMANY AND POLAND IN 1787.
N-O-W — KILLER TYRANT MONARCH PREZS IN USA.
SEE EX-KING DONALD I – NOW ASSEMBLING HIS GANGSTERS FOR 2022-2024.
IMO, if the advocates of NPV were really bold, they would go ahead and implement it among the states that are already participating. Then, they would get a taste of how it would work in practice. IMO, they would then see real problems that they have chosen to ignore or downplay.
NOOOO definition of elector-voter in the NPV scheme.
RED commie States can have foreign commies voting for USA Prez.
Just enough plotting commies — always trying to get total control of the USA by all means – legal and illegal.
The advocates of NPV ought to write a model voter registration law, submit it to the state legislatures, and then implement the NPV compact among those states that pass the model law, whether or not they have a majority of the electoral votes in the compact. Then, we can see how it will work in practice in the participating states.
Once again, we see how versatile the electoral college can be.
In fact, it could be an interesting test of the NPV concept if there were regional compacts. VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, MD, and DC could form one regional compact, and award all their electoral votes to the overall popular vote winner in those states. Likewise WA, OR, CA and HI.
Electoral College —
a late DARK AGE ANTI-Democracy scheme for picking kings in Germany and Poland in 1787.
How many USA Kings so far ???
— getting worse and worse with their MANY UNCON UN-declared wars and their zillion legislative *executive orders* / etc.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was quite liberal in many classical ways, and the monarchical elections were very broad based. Everyone with a noble title was an elector. Royal elections typically had several thousand voting attendees.
There’s a reason that Polish noblemen like Pulaski and Kosciuszko took part in the American Revolution. It was not for personal adventure, but for a cause that they believed in.
What percent of oppressed serfs in Germany and Poland in 1787
— slaving away for those monarchs/oligarchs ???
Poland was actually a refuge for serfs fleeting Russia. It’s one of the reasons that the Czarina joined Prussia and Austria to carve up Poland.
Statist killer/enslaver monarchs/oligarchs —
always using lower class folks as cannon fodder in wars to conquer and have more slaves.
See esp WW I Central Powers and WW II Axis Powers — top killers at work.
About 50-50 split now in USA ??? — NET Tax getters vs NET Tax slaves.
Lots of olde regimes destroyed in olde tax revolts
— top NET tax getters killed, property destruction, lost in history.
New lower tax regimes / merge with lower tax regimes —
BUT always with more and more NET tax LOOTERS in ALL regimes
— rotting the regimes to early/later death.
Will the USA make it to 2026 — 250 years since 1776 ???
Issue in total doubt.
2020-2021 just a mere warm-up for REAL action ???
Won’t happen. They try it over and over. -Nebraska Resident and Perennial Candidate