Hawaii Bill to Replace “Faithless” Presidential Electors Advances

On March 17, the Hawaii House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee passed SB 141. It provides that if a presidential elector doesn’t vote for the presidential candidate who carried the state’s popular vote in November, he or she is replaced.

On the same day, the same committee also passed SB 47, which changes the order of candidates’ names on ballots from alphabetical (by surname) to random.


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Hawaii Bill to Replace “Faithless” Presidential Electors Advances — 14 Comments

  1. There should be no state laws requiring a Presidential elector to vote in any way.

    Parties may require pledges from their chosen electors, but those pledges should be private agreements between the parties and the electors, and enforced only by the parties themselves.

  2. “Random” will mean Democrats always listed first. Richard Winger of course supports this.

  3. ABOLISH THE ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RUEL ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND A-L-L THE ROT WITH IT.

    USA CONST AMDT –
    UNIFORM DEFINITION OF ELECTOR-VOTER IN ALL OF THE USA

    — FORCE REAL DEMOCRACY INTO ALL STATES

    — TO ALSO ENFORCE 4-4 RFG CL AND 14-1 EP CL

    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  4. TOO MANY MORONS TO COUNT WHO LOVE THE CURRENT ROT —

    MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDERS

    EXTREMIST PRIMARIES AND CONVENTIONS

    PARTISAN HACK EXECS/JUDICS

    TYRANTS WITH LEGIS/EXEC/JUDIC POWERS

  5. Not being on board with the current rot doesn’t mean being on board with making it worse. Pure democracy would make it worse. Duh!

  6. Switzerland has the national initiative and Switzerland seems to be a very successful country.

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