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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday November 17 2016, @10:07PM
Solution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:07PM
Yeah, recently New York signed it so they're 61% of the way there now.
Alternately, rolling out proportional EC voting across the country would satisfy me, too.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday November 18 2016, @04:17AM
Given which states have enacted it into law, methinks this is designed and intended for the home team's advantage.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday November 18 2016, @10:56AM
sudo mod me up