Complaints about the Electoral College arose in 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote narrowly over George W. Bush, but was denied the presidency after a fiercely contested Florida ⦠It safeguards against uninformed ⦠The Electoral College failed! Just as compromise solved the initial ⦠Interestingly, when I wrote the first edition of The Right to Vote, I said very little about the Electoral College, which then troubled me because that book was published in 2000âjust before the election, in which the Electoral College played a significant role. A key argument to keep the Electoral College is that the process is ⦠They have started to sign petitions to abolish the Electoral College. If we did away with the electoral college non citizens and dead could elect the President. (D-Mass.) For years when I taught campaigns and elections at Brown University, I defended the Electoral College as an important part of American democracy. Many Americans are upset with the outcome of the 2016 Election. The U.S. Constitution should be amended only rarely. The Electoral College also guards against voter fraud, since criminal elements have to target key swing states to sway the final outcome, which is very difficult to do. Note: This petition is open to residents of the United States, and a valid U.S. zip code is needed to submit the form. Keep the Electoral College We the people support the Constitution and the use of the Electoral College. The election was rigged. Their pledges follow a growing movement for change at the state level and represent ⦠Petition: Abolish the Electoral College - One Green Planet The Founding Fathers thought it was the best way to choose the president. Here's why. Millions sign petition demanding electoral college members vote for Hillary Clinton rather than Donald Trump. The only way to fully eliminate the Electoral College is through a constitutional amendment.There has been one constitutional amendment pertaining to the Electoral College so far. I said the founders created the institution to make sure that large states did not dominate small ones in presidential elections, that power between Congress and state legislatures was balanced, and that there would be checks and balances in the constitutional system. Organizers of what they call the Dec. 19 protests â including Americans Take Action, the Electoral College Petition, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and the Hamilton Electors, ⦠These so-called “intellectuals” are paid by the likes of George Soros and various other anti-American institutions many of which George Soros is funding with many, if not all, liberal political figures, leftist celebrities and the corporate criminal class. Sign this petition if you believe that the United States should abolish the Electoral College, adopt the Popular Vote, and effectively become a more democratic nation. If you love America, and want to protect our Charters of Freedom, and keep America, American, then sign this petition to preserve the Electoral College. Maintain American Federalism. California Privacy: Do Not Sell My Personal Information, (c) Petition2Congress, all rights reserved. President-elect Donald Trump, flanked by his wife, Melania, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., gives a thumbs-up on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, ⦠Twice in 20 years, the popular vote winner has lost the Electoral College. They are claiming the Electoral College is antiquated, based on racism, and used to keep whites in places of power. We, the undersigned, call upon the United States government to keep the Electoral College. We see the evidence and depth of this brainwashing every time these soft sensitive whiners do not get their way. Please stand by the Constitution and protect ALL citizens of the United States of America by supporting the Electoral College process. With this, it ultimately states that during the Presidential Elections, whoever wins the Electoral vote wins the election. The petition stated that Ms Clinton, who won the popular vote, could still ⦠The Electoral College, he wrote, was a âtime bomb lodged near the heart of the nation.â It still is. Voters currently living and voting in a "red" or "blue" state are disenfranchised, because their vote doesn't matter. This process has been set in place by the 12th Amendment. However, with the rural white working-class vote showing up so strongly, evening the liberal dead voters, the illegal Mexican vote, nor the African-American multiple-votes-per-person vote could overcome the onslaught. Uneducated people want to stop the electoral college⦠The Electoral College has outlasted its usefulness. The question is, do we now rest on the election results (which Trump not only won by electoral vote, but also by the popular vote-look it up) and wait without fight for the socialist and communists to wage a war on yet another part of American political tradition, or do we stand up once more-just like we did in the election-and say, “Hell no!”. have continued to foster the falsehood against the electoral college as well. The electoral college is an outdated, racist, and ineffective way to determine who will be the President of the United States. Brezenoff, a clinical social worker and professor in California, is the man behind a record-breaking Change.org petition calling on the Electoral College to make Democratic nominee Hillary ⦠For centuries, the Electoral College benefited white ⦠If you love America, and want to protect our Charters of Freedom, and keep America, American, then sign this petition to preserve the Electoral College. The majority of 2020 Democratic hopefuls are sponsoring or considering plans to dismantle the electoral college. Colleges across the United States have continuously brainwashed the Snowflake generation with anti-American communistic ideology for many years now. These socialists/communists claim to be about liberty for all, justice and peace. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. But the Electoral College ⦠No, instead the so-called “peace-loving” and “tolerant” have shown everyone just who they are through rioting, vandalism, acts of violence and crying out unjustifiably against our new president. The KEEP THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE petition to United States Government was written by Zach Andrews and is in the category These are the same people who would do away with the Constitution, and our other Charters of Freedom. eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote for president while others believe the Electoral College should remain unchanged. The quirks of the Electoral College system were exposed in 2016 when Donald Trump secured the presidency with an Electoral College majority, even as Hillary Clinton took a narrow lead ⦠We, the undersigned, call upon the United States government to keep the Electoral College. Joselyn Wilson started this petition to U.S. Congress The electoral college has been a part of this country since the year 1804. Many are calling for the electoral college to be revoked; however, to remove the electoral college simply based on one side losing to another is not a valid reason to remove it from our election process. The purpose of the electoral college is to be a compromise between election ⦠Christopher Lewis started this petition to U.S. House of Representatives and 2 others The Electoral College is an outdated and manipulative way to keep in the corporations and keep the ideas, beliefs, â¦
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