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Hillary Clinton, Electoral College Elector

Journal by DeathMonkey

Good news everybody!

Hillary Clinton will be an Electoral College Elector for NY

Aren't you glad to know that your votes don't actually count and that Hillary Clinton is one of mere 538 people in the United States whose vote actually does count?

 

Reply to: Re:And it is fine to ...

    (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 29 2020, @04:21PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday October 29 2020, @04:21PM (#1070408)

    You mean the states they already don't visit because they're reliably Red?

    And you know what's even MORE egregious? There are millions of people in the US who don't get any Presidential vote AT ALL! [pri.org] They don't even get the bullshit 3/5s of a vote we get here in blue states.

    Millions of them are of voting age. Many are veterans or active military. But they cannot vote to elect their commander in chief.

    People born in Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico are all Americans. They vote in US congressional elections and presidential primaries. This year, voting rights advocate and lawyer Neil Weare says they were "even heavily courted by both parties ... they went to the [Democratic and Republican] conventions."

    Sounds like taxation without representation to me!

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