ONE PERSON ONE VOTE DEMOCRACY: BULLSHIT

 

There is a weakness in our democracy, and it is called the Electoral College.   This cache-22 in our constitution allows the minority to rule the majority. 

 

 It also allows the possibility for one individual to overturn the vote of the people.    In many states, the state appointed members of the Electoral College are not required to cast the state’s votes for the winner of the state’s Presidential election.   There is no recourse to prevent a state electorate from casting the states vote according to their own political preference.   This, of course, leaves the Presidential election open to manipulation from corrupt partisan state politicians who appoint the members of the Electoral College. 

 

It has not been unprecedented to have a President who lost the popular vote installed in office by the Electoral Collage

the Ol’Buzzard

 

DOES ONE PERSON ONE VOTE ELECTS THE PRESIDENT?

THE CATASTROPHE OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ON DEMOCRACY.

Presidents are not elected by the popular vote.   President are determined by the number of electoral votes they receive from the electoral college.

When you go to the pole you are not voting for a President but for an Electoral College “elector” to be determined by your party leaders (whoever they are.)

The founding fathers decided that the people were not reliable or smart enough to determine the outcome of an election for the head-of-state, so they devised a system where party leaders could put their finger on the scales to affect an outcome acceptable to the political elite. 

Here is how it works.   Each state is allowed the number of votes equal to their number of Representatives and Senators.

 

Here is the rub: Representatives are determined by the population of the state, but every state has two Senators.  That means the North Dakota with a population of half-a-million gets two votes for their senators and California with a population of thirty-seven-million also get only two votes that represent their senators.   This supposedly levels the playing field for states with small populations; but it also means that the will of the people – the popular vote – is devaluated. 

So, when I cast my vote here in Maine I am voting for someone that I don’t know to choose someone else that I don’t know to represent me in the Electoral College in the hope they will vote for the person I voted for.

The problem with this system is that by the end of this year, two Presidents that were not elected by popular vote will have replaced five members of the Supreme Court.     What kind of fucking democracy is this?

the Ol’Buzzard

WHO ARE THE DELEGATES AND SUPER DELEGATES?

Hey candidate
you show me good time
I got vote for sale.

Former Arizona governor Jan Brewer is crying like a baby that she was not selected as a delegate to the Republican convention.    Is she really such a staunch supporter of Cruz that she is upset she cannot carry water for him?  

The real dirty little secret is that delegates to the conventions are on an all-expense paid vacation.   First class travel, put up at the best hotels and eating at the best restaurants.  When they arrive they receive a ‘swag bag’ of goodies worth hundreds of dollars; then representatives of the candidates visit them with ‘gifts and even money for expenses’ in order to sway their vote.   If the convention is contested the ‘incentives’ can get really expensive.   Delegate whores have even been known to come away with cruise tickets and golf club memberships.

This is why the people who know and the people with connections compete for the position of convention delegate.  It is far more than loyalty to the candidate and party.

Like the Electoral College, the convention delegates, assigned by the party, are the establishment’s attempt to put a thumb on the scale of elections; to be able to counter the popular vote.

Just an observation.

I could be wrong.

Perhaps it is all about Patriotism and the Nation.

Naaaaa

the Ol’Buzzard