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Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College
Zebano writes "Since changing the US constitution is too much work, the Iowa senate is considering a bill that would send all 7 of Iowa's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in a presidential election. This would only go into affect after enough states totaling 270 electoral votes (enough to elect a president) adopted similar resolutions."
It would makes Iowa completely irrelevent in the national elections.
And irrelevant it should be... Seriously.
And that the states each use different voting machine setups, each with their own error rates.
And the sheer logistics of trying to do a "national" recount - look at the amount of vote fraud pulled by the Franken camp in Minnesota - 25 counties that now show more votes than voters, selective recounting of Dem-heavy districts, fraud trying to "certify" the election even while significant challenges existed and some counties hadn't even finished their processes yet... now imagine trying to nationally recount the "national popular vote" while dealing with the fact that every state (and in some states, even different counties) have different counting standards, different voting machinery with higher or lower error rates...
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You're assuming I have a "side."
I'm on the side of fair elections - one in which nobody repeats Boss Tweed's famous "it's not the votes, it's the count, so KEEP COUNTING" scenario.
That's what the Franken camp pulled. You're obviously not on the side of fair elections.
If you can read this sig, congratulations, you have your glasses on!
You mean the state right to allow people to own other people don't you? Stop trying to sugar coat it with manure. It doesn't work.
First thing I think of is all the people who voted for Bush's second term. You don't get more ignorant then that.
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely and petty power corrupts all out of proportion to actual power. Given this, if you think that the Federal Government is bad, just wait until you see the small-town politicians, who are all too happy to play counts over their little kingdoms.
There's nothing to make someone a shithead like realizing that they're an insignificant leader leading an insignificant shithole in the middle of nowhere. Their subjects are going to pay - oh yes, are they ever.
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