On 12/7/2022 4:27 AM, John Clark wrote:
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.
I think the laws of the state may make it illegal. But in any case
that's not what makes the vote for President undemocratic, at you note
below.
Brent
>/ 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
Collegea person voting in a presidential election in Wyoming has
about 70 times as much influence as to who will be the next
presidentas 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
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