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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 304997" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>It's Maryland instead of Arkansas but on the rest of it you are correct.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3457/dropping_out_of_electoral_college/" target="_blank">http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3457/dropping_out_of_electoral_college/</a></p><p> </p><p>Here is how it works and BTW under the Constitutional process, it's perfectly legal as the State itself is free to craft it's own process for choosing. Here's how it works and this is lifted directly from the article above.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>OK, let's say Maryland in the 2008' General Election votes among it's State voters to elect the democrat nominee President but nationally the popular vote went to the republican. (OK, you can do it visa-versa if it makes you feel better) Instead of following the will of it's people, they would follow the will of the other states so to speak. Depending of POV you could see this as a type of voter dis-enfranchisement because the State of Maryland has opted to not listen to the voice of it's citizens and listen to the voice of others. </p><p> </p><p>Now again, perfectly legal under the constitution as I read it but what is the message you send to your own State voters? Here's another danger concerning this. If this process became adapted across the board, a person running for President only need to capture a handfull of States who have the largest population base and thus ignore the rest of the country and whamo, they own the White House. To take it to the next level, if a party wanted to control the WH, all they need do is control those same States and you got it! How could you do this? Well for starters, could you imagine what you could do for these States with the earmark and corp. welfare programs? Talk about buying votes. The smaller states would in time become waste lands and citizens would begin to flock to these larger populated states in order to share in the good life further entrenching the political powers that control it. </p><p> </p><p>The electoral college is now only an issue because we've placed powers into the hands of the President which were never intended to begin with. If you read the organic Constitution in plain english, it's clear that the States and thus local governance were thought to be the real seat of gov't that most people would be effected day to day. Now it has become in many respects the President who holds that position more and more and we continue to craft ways in which to add to those powers.</p><p> </p><p>The problem is not the process in which we vote, the problem IMHO is the voters themselves and the lack of our knowledge and understanding of what we are doing when we enter those sanctums of gov't worship to pay homage to our new gods!</p><p> </p><p>And AV8, it still doesn't change what I said IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 304997, member: 2189"] It's Maryland instead of Arkansas but on the rest of it you are correct. [URL]http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3457/dropping_out_of_electoral_college/[/URL] Here is how it works and BTW under the Constitutional process, it's perfectly legal as the State itself is free to craft it's own process for choosing. Here's how it works and this is lifted directly from the article above. [B][/B] OK, let's say Maryland in the 2008' General Election votes among it's State voters to elect the democrat nominee President but nationally the popular vote went to the republican. (OK, you can do it visa-versa if it makes you feel better) Instead of following the will of it's people, they would follow the will of the other states so to speak. Depending of POV you could see this as a type of voter dis-enfranchisement because the State of Maryland has opted to not listen to the voice of it's citizens and listen to the voice of others. Now again, perfectly legal under the constitution as I read it but what is the message you send to your own State voters? Here's another danger concerning this. If this process became adapted across the board, a person running for President only need to capture a handfull of States who have the largest population base and thus ignore the rest of the country and whamo, they own the White House. To take it to the next level, if a party wanted to control the WH, all they need do is control those same States and you got it! How could you do this? Well for starters, could you imagine what you could do for these States with the earmark and corp. welfare programs? Talk about buying votes. The smaller states would in time become waste lands and citizens would begin to flock to these larger populated states in order to share in the good life further entrenching the political powers that control it. The electoral college is now only an issue because we've placed powers into the hands of the President which were never intended to begin with. If you read the organic Constitution in plain english, it's clear that the States and thus local governance were thought to be the real seat of gov't that most people would be effected day to day. Now it has become in many respects the President who holds that position more and more and we continue to craft ways in which to add to those powers. The problem is not the process in which we vote, the problem IMHO is the voters themselves and the lack of our knowledge and understanding of what we are doing when we enter those sanctums of gov't worship to pay homage to our new gods! And AV8, it still doesn't change what I said IMO. [/QUOTE]
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