Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
[...] "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.
Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won the most recent such election, in 2000.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wLQz-LgrM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @08:38PM
That's a non-sequitur. Congress is representative, but the electoral college isn't. State electors don't ever make their own decisions, they just vote whatever the popular vote results were. Technically they could vote however they felt like, though in about half the states that would be illegal and if it happened in any other states there would be a category 5 shitstorm.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @09:08PM
From Wiki, because it's about all the amount of effort that it's worth: