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| Topic | Hillary Clinton calls for EC to be abolished as she casts NY EC vote for Biden |
| Heineken14 12/15/20 12:14:44 PM #78: | realnifty1 posted... The second, and still somewhat relevant idea, revolves around State's rights and the general uneasiness of how much they trusted each other. By declaring a number of electors, every one knew and agreed to how much each other state could affect the vote. If each state is reporting there popular vote there becomes more opportunity for a state to desire to maybe add 10,000 votes or so to the candidate of their favor to try and tip the scales. Even if it didn't happen, the lack of an ability to validate the reported votes would have lead us to where we are today, but much sooner and at a time when States were much more powerful individual entities likely crumbling the Union. Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but.... What? States wouldn't be able to just add votes to their tally because that would very easily get caught. Also states would have 0 reason to do so anyway because there would be nothing in it for them to do so. It's just them reporting a got x votes and b got y votes and then everything is added together from the other 49 states. --- Rage is a hell of an anesthetic. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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