On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 6:52 AM Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
*> I was under the impression that electoral college members are not free > to vote on whomever they like, that they must vote for the candidate that > won in their state.* > Unfortunately that is not true. When an American citizen votes in a presidential election he is not really voting for a presidential candidate, he is voting for a member of the Electoral College who has pledged to vote for a certain presidential candidate, however members of the Electoral College have a constitutional right to vote for anybody they want and are not legally bound by any prior pledge they may have made. Most would consider reneging on their pledge to be unethical but it is not illegal. > > * otherwise I wouldn't say that the US are an actual democracy.* > You said it not me. > > *If I am indeed correct, then you are complaining about a distortion > caused by your particular flavor of representative democracy.* > And as if the above is not bad enough, thanks to the Electoral College a person voting in a presidential election in Wyoming has about 70 times as much influence as to who will be the next president as a person who votes in California. And as if *that *isn't bad enough, in nearly all of the states if candidate X wins 50.01% of the popular vote and candidate Y wins 49.99% of the popular vote then candidate X wins 100% of the all important electoral votes and candidate Y wins 0%. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> b47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1Mx%2B%3DJ4Bni%2BE-OnQxqEgD0etJohK2P-e-FUAdjH%2BGr%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
