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Ending the US Electoral College

posted by janrinok on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:33PM   
from the what-is-your-vote-worth? dept.

quintessence writes:

Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Senator-Boxer-to-Introduce-Bill-to-Eliminate-Electoral-College--401314945.html

"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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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

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• Re:one-man one-vote Re:one-man one-vote (Score: 0, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:52PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:52PM (#428500) Homepage Journal

  Give us a kiss, sugar. It'll hurt more than your weakass attempts at trolling. Maybe go practice in a mirror some more before you come back.

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• Re:one-man one-vote (Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday November 19 2016, @07:36AM

  by chromas (34) on Saturday November 19 2016, @07:36AM (#429334) Journal

  I read that in Moxxi's voice. Thanks a lot.

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