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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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @10:38AM
That's true under the current system of water supply. I'm pretty sure California could figure out mass desalinization quickly if their feet were held to the fire.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 18 2016, @11:21AM
Quickly enough and cheaply enough? I'm fairly dubious.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @02:58PM
When the alternative is dying of thirst, the "cheap enough" calculus changes quite a bit. Also, since dying of thirst only takes 3 days, "quickly enough" would have a good deal of pressure behind it.
So, bye-bye Mono Lake, hello massive chain of nuclear power plants powering desalinization plants.
I do think if it had proper motivation, California could figure it out since they do have enough economic power and enough of a brain trust in Silicon Valley.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 18 2016, @04:50PM
Indeed but I wasn't speaking of "can it be done" cheap enough but of "can it be done in such a way as the average citizen can afford the water it produces" cheap enough.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.