Obsolete US
Prez Electoral college system : an anachronism of
time.
DentalFloss(PF) wroteYou realize that the
allocation of electoral college votes doesn't require, or even
allow, "voters" to have a say, right? As a practical matter, all 50
States have adopted that method, and most, but not all, use the
"winner take all" method. But there is nothing that requires that.
The State Legislature could decide to use ANY method they chose,
the flip of a coin for example, or even only having the Legislature
itself vote on the Electors. There is no right for the average
person to have a vote at all.
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I
STILL THINK that the way electoral college votes are totalled and
the result transmitted to Washington dc for the determination of
whom should be president is more a product of LIMITATION BY DESIGN
to the pre-1861 state of available communications technology (i.e.
smoke signals, pony express mail service in the era BEFORE
telegraph service) and perhaps the infant democracy that the USA
was at (blacks and women weren't allowed to vote).
Why
else would a state not accede to accurate transmission of data to
the benefit of minority interest but either due to TECHNOLOGICAL
LIMITATIONS of the contemporary period or else because many states
were ruled by BULLIES who would gratuitously (indecently/corruptly)
exploit minority interest in favour of their majority rule. I am
already being very lenient in blaming technological limitations for
the perceivable injustice since to label state leaderships of being
rogue BULLIES would be most incriminating. Costs of elections were
also a concern so the focus was on state legislature, the vote for
president having much lesser concern since USA was more concerned
about intra-contentinental issues with few if any global
concerns.
Perhaps
the fact that state legislatures across all states (to my
knowledge) opt for statewide voter participation in presidential
elections (rather than flipping a coin as u mentioned) alludes to
the fact that contemporary justice supported by modern
technological progress, the GROWING AMBIT OF GLOBAL ROLE OF USA
PRESIDENT, demand for as widespread voter participation as
possible. Both technological availability and voter interest
mandate that a national vote BEYOND the election of mere state
legislators be conducted.
The
'winner take all' manner of state reporting towards total electoral
college votes for president only serves to fuel extremes of citizen
participation, from extreme obsession/expression to apathetic
absence as 'my vote won't count': which itself adds fuel to
creating divisions within a nation/
federation. The
current method of USA presidential vote counting remains an
anachronism of our time and urgently needs reform if the USA is to
remain a leading thought/policy leader in the world, rather than an
OBSOLETE /spent force, or a bully which others need to teach
discipline to and be put back to its original humble
place.