Klarinet Archive - Posting 000154.txt from 2006/10

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Electoral College (was Library of Congress ticekts for
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:11:55 -0400

But- Unless memory fails- the people are electing
the electoral college- who aren't actually legally
bound to vote for who the people chose......

Bill Hausmann wrote:
> At 03:39 PM 10/13/2006 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>> NO ONE can explain the American electoral college. It exists in a
>> spirit world beyond the realm of human comprehension.
>
>
> I don't think it is all that complicated. Since the United States is a
> representative republic, and not, as is so often presumed, a democracy,
> our Constitution provides for the STATES to elect the President, not the
> people. The vote of the states is weighted for population, so some
> states have more electoral votes than others, but the very fact of being
> a state also carries weight. The states can actually chose almost any
> method to determine which way they will vote, but almost all have
> determined that the best method is by a vote of the people in a
> winner-take-all format. This method has proven to be very equitable,
> and it actually performs the desired function of the Framers to reduce
> the tendency of a few large cities to control the electoral process.
> Take a look at the famous Red-Blue map. Without the Electoral College,
> the votes of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago areas alone would
> decide elections and the rest of the country (the red part) would have
> no say. That would be a VERY BAD THING! And that is REGARDLESS of your
> opinion of the current or any other recent administration. The
> government must represent ALL the people.
>
> (Dismount soapbox.)
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann

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