Bills Introduced in 3 More States for Plan to End Electoral College
April 3rd, 2006Bills have been introduced in Colorado, Louisiana and Missouri, similar to bills already introduced in California and Illinois, in support of the “National Popular Vote” plan. This plan calls for states to pass bills, pledging to appoint presidential electors who will vote for whichever presidential candidate polls the most votes nationwide. The Colorado bill is SB223; Louisiana’s is HR 927; Missouri’s is HB 2090.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:13 am
We really need to look into why the founders decided to use the electoral college. I hope that we stick with it. By doing oway with it the smaller states will have even less imput in our nations future. Also do we really want to be ruled by the majority or by a written constitution. Lets look into it more before we rush into this.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:21 am
As usual, Joe Murphy is right.
May I refer everyone to my comment above, in the RIP article?
There were very good reasons the Founders invented the Electoral College.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:01 am
None of the small states except New Hampshire have any “imput” into presidential elections as is.
It’s no mystery why the founders “invented” the Electoral College in its current form. A handful of small states could make or break the new Constitution, and they used that power to extract disproportionate influence.
Now things have changed. The country is not in danger of falling apart, and even if we cared about preserving small states’ disproportionate influence, the Electoral College is no longer a vehicle for it, due to direct election of presidential electors, “winner-take-all” elections (clearly incentivized by the system the founders designed, of course), the party system and the resulting “swing state” phenomenon.
April 4th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
The constitution protects the minority. It is essential to protect what little rights the states have left. The states are supposed to be in control of what happens in Washington not the other way around. We need to get rid of the 17th admendment which also takes more power away from the states. The country has fallen apart, in that it is completely the opposite of how the founders had envisioned it. Do you really want the major cities dictating who our president will be. Also remember we are a republic not a democracy there is a huge difference.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:23 am
California has 55 electoral votes and 36,132,147 people in 2000. 1 vote per 656,948 people.
Wyoming has 3 electoral votes and 509,294 people in 2000. 1 vote per 169,765 people.
So a person voting in Wyoming has roughly 4 times more voice in a presidential election.