On January 5, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) introduced a new constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer had introduced one a few weeks ago, but that went into the outgoing congress, whereas Cohen has now put the proposal into the new congress. Check back here on Friday to see the text.
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It’ll never pass, period.
I hope it does not pass. I think the Electoral College was one of the Founding Fathers best ideas. Personally I would like to see the United States change it’s government to a parliamentary system so the chief executive would never be chosen by direct vote of the people.
Umm, there is NO executive in a parliamentary system. The legislature can do whatever it wants without any repercussions or vetoes from an executive.
Not going to happen.
AMcCarrick: A Prime Minister is elected by the Parliament to run the government. In a system without a monarch that sounds like a chief executive to me.
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Strengthen the Electoral college instead. Excellent article about it here: https://mises.org/blog/lets-expand-electoral-college
The article doesn’t really advocate for changing the electoral college. It instead advocates double majorities for other elections, such as gubernatorial races.
Republican majority in U.S. Congress. Republican majority in state legislatures. Odds are not in favor.
The Electoral college was created to insure the continuance of slavery by giving more votes to small slavery states and less to larger states in proportion to their populations. It is an undemocratic system and has no place in a country that claims democracy and “one person. one vote.” Thanks, Barbara Boxer. It takes a good woman!