Friday, January 17, 2020

The Electoral College is poison to the USA democracy.

How is this even a question? It will take an amendment to the Constitution to end it. There needs to be collations built in each state to ratify an amendment when it passes Congress.

January 17, 2020
By Pete Williams

Washington - The Supreme Court agreed Friday (click here) to take up an issue that could change a key element of the system America uses to elect its president, with a decision likely in the spring just as the campaign heats up.

The answer to the question could be a decisive one: Are the electors who cast the actual Electoral College ballots for president and vice president required to follow the results of the popular vote in their states? Or are they free to vote as they wish?

A decision that they are free agents could give a single elector, or a small group of them, the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie or is close....