greg
finally we agree on something
murph 58/10

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:55:59 -0500 Greg Sterling <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> If you do away with the electoral college be prepared for national
> recounts taking weeks or months.  Also, people in states with small
> populations may as well move east or west if they ever want to see a
> candidate.  They'll be spending all of their time and money wooing
> the large metropolitan centers where the votes are.  If you don't
> believe this just look at the current election.  GWB carried the
> majority of the country geographically, but Gore won the popular
> vote.  The E.C. limits the recounts to single states and gives each
> state proportionate worth.  If the E.C. is eliminated the next thing
> to go may be the concept of two senators per state.  Why give
> California and Rhode Island the same power in the Senate?
>
> Greg
> 48/35/35
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dick Swindler" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 11:29 PM
> Subject: Re: (fwd) RALLY IN PALM BEACH
>
>
> > Darwin -
> >
> > The framers of the constitution were addressing the situation at
> the time,
> > when many people were illiterate, and there was little means of
> communication
> > from one place to another.  They didn't trust the voters to make
> informed
> > decisions.  I'm not saying everyone in the country today makes
> informed
> > decisions, either, but the means of communication exist for them
> to do so.  I
> > say it's time to change the archaic electoral college provision
> and allow us
> > to be a true democracy.
> >
> > We hear so much about why people don't get out and vote.  I can
> tell you that
> > I still vote, although every four years I wonder why I bother.  I
> live in a
> > state dominated by the "opposite" party, so every single time I've
> voted for
> > a president, my vote ends up being treated as if it didn't exist.
> I don't
> > see how there's any fairness in a system that tosses out the votes
> of
> > slightly less than half its citizens during every presidential
> election.
> > Maybe if people thought their votes truly counted, more would get
> out and
> > vote.  And I don't mean that handful of people in Florida this
> time whose
> > votes really matter.  I mean all the rest of us whose presidential
> votes have
> > never counted, once, in a lifetime of voting.
> >
> > Margie
> >
> > <<
> >  Changing the subject a little. There is such a hoopla about
> popular vote.
> >  That is as totally meaningless as deciding who is elected by
> whose wife
> >  weighs the most. We are a Republic not a Democracy and anyone who
> doesn't
> >  know the difference shouldn't be participating in the election
> process in
> >  the first place. We are a Federation of States, whence the name
> United
> >  States of America. People do not elect the President, by our
> Constitution,
> >  the states do, and it is up to each state to survey/poll their
> citizens
> >  using laws they have established to determine who they are going
> to vote for
> >  to represent them in the Executive Branch. >>
> >