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May 5, 2009 at 11:04 am #590753
HMC RichParticipantSeems Senator McDermott co-sponsored a new law that Chris signed. Read this editorial from the Seattle Times.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2009167552_editb04electoral.html
May 5, 2009 at 2:42 pm #666095
TheHouseMemberThanks for the post HMC Rich. If it wasn’t for your post, I wouldn’t have even heard about this.
This is an absolute horrid law/Bill. Why is the hell would we base Washingtons Electoral College votes on anything besides the votes from the citizens of Washington?
I might be interpreting this incorrectly, but doesn’t this go against the whole concept of individual states and directly goes against the Declaration of Independence?
May 5, 2009 at 3:28 pm #666096
GinaParticipantWeird. I wonder what the trigger was for this law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPlIcQw_dg
The only explanation of the Electoral College that I can follow. But it works!
May 5, 2009 at 5:56 pm #666097
JoBParticipantThis just means that the votes of the electoral college will follow the National popular vote in a national presidential election .. instead of the state’s popular vote.
right now the majority of states award all electoral votes to the winner in their state..
which means that victory in some states is more important than others because of the number of electoral votes locked down…
thus in close elections you can have one result in the popular vote and another in the electoral vote…
they could have eliminated the conflict as easily by making electoral votes proportionate to the state’s actual vote…
this is a solution i personally like better…
May 6, 2009 at 12:35 am #666098
HMC RichParticipantThe TNT has an article reporting the pros and cons. http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/editorials/v-lite/story/727382.html
May 7, 2009 at 1:50 am #666099
Sky2625MemberI’m a big proponent of “electoral votes proportionate to the state’s actual vote”.
I’m not a fan of this law though.
We stand to have the will of our own voters invalidated by the rest of the country. In the last 13 elections, it would have happened 5 times, and 8 total since we became a state (30 elections).
When we vote for the electoral winner, the electors do nothing different. When we vote for the electoral runner-up, the electors ignore our votes. We stand to be disenfranchised by this.
Think ahead to some point in time where our state may disagree with the more populous regions of the country. We’d be locked into providing electoral votes to their preferred candidate, instead of our own.
May 7, 2009 at 3:41 am #666100
JoBParticipantSky2625…
i agree that this is not the best way to end run around the electoral college…
it is too easily gamed.. and runs the risk of marginalizing any states that signed on to it.
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