NO "Popular Vote" if states choose to have the Legislature Vote for Federal Offices

[kyzr]

We will keep the popular vote on presidential elections also, and be represented by the electoral votes representing that vote in the states, at the electoral college.
You should immigrate, as you will not get your way here.

We have the popular vote now, and the results are ALWAYS disputed.

If a state decides to decide their EC votes by the legislature, that would be a calming decision. I support it.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

IT'S BROKE.

What is broken about it?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We have the popular vote now, and the results are ALWAYS disputed.

If a state decides to decide their EC votes by the legislature, that would be a calming decision. I support it.

You are going to rewrite the Constitution?

 

[g5000]

State LEGISLATURES decide how their state elections are held.

Popular voting is unpopular, no matter who wins. The other side always cheated.

So how about a formal voice vote by state legislators to decide Federal Elections?

There would be no cheating because the votes would be public voice votes.

The vote counting would be simple, beyond reproach, and immediate.

I like the idea. No commercials. No phone calls.

No big money "Zuckerbucks" buying elections, just our elected state officials doing their jobs.

Nope.

Nice try, but you are not going to disenfranchise 81 million voters like that.

Trump lost. Get over it.

 

[kyzr]

This is a ploy to get power in fewer and fewer hands.
Yes, in the beginning it was done this way. Elections were difficult, at best, back then.

The "ploy" is for the oligarchs like Zuckerberg to buy elections. Local reps, with public votes would be impossible to buy, or they'd get lynched.

 

[WinterBorn]

The "ploy" is for the oligarchs like Zuckerberg to buy elections. Local reps, with public votes would be impossible to buy, they'd get lynched.

Not to mention the immoral acts that would be swept under the rug by those guilty of the same.

 

[kyzr]

I trust my neighbors more than I trust the state legislature.
State legislature is second tier. What would politicians do to get to the 1st tier?

I don't trust the political machines. I trust public votes of legislators.

 

[whitehall]

WTF is this all about? Is it some misdirection to keep from focusing on real political issues? The Constitution is still the law of the land and representatives are still elected by the people

 

[WinterBorn]

I don't trust the political machines. I trust public votes of legislators.

The legislators would be the ultimate political machine, with no controls by the people.

 

[kyzr]

What is broken about it?

No one trusts the results, especially since the dems let millions of migrants into the US. You know they will all be voting.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The "ploy" is for the oligarchs like Zuckerberg to buy elections. Local reps, with public votes would be impossible to buy, they'd get lynched.

Have you ever asked yourself how your so-called oligarchs "buy" elections?

They cannot.

 

[kyzr]

You are going to rewrite the Constitution?

State legislatures can change their states' voting laws.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I don't trust the political machines. I trust public votes of legislators.

No, you don't! Public votes violate the very principals our elections are based upon.

 

[kyzr]

Nope. Nice try, but you are not going to disenfranchise 81 million voters like that.
Trump lost. Get over it.

Not about Trump, its about election integrity.

 

[Skylar]

State LEGISLATURES decide how their state elections are held.

Popular voting is unpopular, no matter who wins. The other side always cheated.

So how about a formal voice vote by state legislators to decide Federal Elections?

There would be no cheating because the votes would be public voice votes.

The vote counting would be simple, beyond reproach, and immediate.

I like the idea. No commercials. No phone calls.

No big money "Zuckerbucks" buying elections, just our elected state officials doing their jobs.

Applying Big Liar logic.....how do we know these state legislators were rightfully elected if no election can be trusted?

 

[g5000]

Not about Trump, its about election integrity.

Who do you think you are fooling?

Trump lost. Bigly.

Get over it.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

State legislatures can change their states voting laws.

Electoral College is in the Constitution, dumbass!

They can change their laws now. No one is stopping them except common sense.

 

[WinterBorn]

State legislatures can change their states voting laws.

They can change the rules concerning voting.

But the 17th amendment to the US Constitution says:
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures."

 

[kyzr]

WTF is this all about? Is it some misdirection to keep from focusing on real political issues? The Constitution is still the law of the land and representatives are still elected by the people

"This" is about Hillary Clinton. I just saw her on TV saying that she fears state legislators taking control of elections.
If Hillary opposes it, I'm all for it.

 

[g5000]

"This" is about Hillary Clinton. I just saw her on TV saying that she fears state legislators taking control of elections.
If Hillary opposes it, I'm all for it.

31 state legislatures are controlled by the GOP. Yet they are less than half of the voting population.

Some of those hack partisan legislatures would not hesitate to override the voters of their state.

THAT is why Clinton is afraid of them taking control of elections.

Trump lost. Bigly.

Get over it.