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Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-cancelling-their-caucus-i-bet dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Wow... by jedidiah · · Score: 1, Troll

    Iowa's basically getting set to disenfranchise an entire state of voters.

    They might as well go back to letting the state senate elect the federal senators.

    Of course sending electors to the college based on popular vote within the state would make far too much sense.

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  2. English FAIL by CharAznable · · Score: 0, Troll

    Effect, not affect, goddamn it!

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  3. Re:One way to get more registered voters by drsquare · · Score: 1, Troll

    You think "public" (i.e. government) education has made things better?

    Well, you don't have slavery anymore, something which would disgust the founding fathers.

    What we have now is American Idol politics, where every month or so contestants are booted off in state by state popularity contests; the one that promises us the most at everybody else's expense wins... woohoo!!!

    Yes, we the people are idiots, and democracy is a terrible idea. Bring back an oligarchy, it works for Russia.

  4. Re:Yawn. by Jaryn · · Score: 0, Troll

    can someone, anyone, please mod this moron down? obvious troll is obvious...