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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @09:58PM
Along with Feinstein and Pelosi (And I am sure many others.)
Honestly the only D I've been rooting for recently has been Wyden, because he actually seems to care about issues that are important to me and the internet community in general. Too bad I don't get to vote for him. The rest of them though are throwing us under the bus (Too many big business+authoritarian D's nowadays.)
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday November 18 2016, @04:08AM
Yep, having watched her entire career, my first thought was "It's Boxer, so it has to be a bad bill".
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday November 18 2016, @05:50PM
Well I rooted for Bernie in the primaries, but he wasn't exactly a "real" Democrat either.