On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Markus Schulze wrote:
Second: It makes it possible that the elections
are run by the governments of the individual
states and don't have to be run by the central
government.
[Currently, to guarantee that the Equal Protection
Clause is fulfilled, it is only necessary to
guarantee that all the voters within the same
state are treated equally.
A popular vote would make it necessary that also
all the voters across the USA are treated equally.
This would mean that also the regulations on
eligibility, absentee ballots, early voting,
voting machines, opening hours of the polling
stations etc. would have to be harmonized across
the USA.]
And this would be, on balance, a bad thing because...?
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