The Electoral College is Broken
The Political Parties and the Wall Street bankers and corporations determine who gets nominated and elected. "Winner take All" has got to go.

At the Constitutional Convention the hottest debate was over how the states would be represented in Congress. The larger states wanted representation to be determined by population, while the smaller states wanted every state to have equal representation.

Roger Sherman of Connecticut proposed that Congress consist of a bicameral legislature with one house, based on proportional representation, which would favor the large states; and a second house, where each of the states would be equally represented in terms of equal numbers.

The delegates of the small states did not want the President to be directly elected by the people because this would give the large states the power to override the small states and unilaterally elect the President.

If the President were to be elected in direct popular vote, the people living in the large states would dominate and the voices of the people in the small states would be silenced by the tyranny of the majority vote.

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They decided that each state should have a number of Presidential electors equal to the number of Senators and Representatives in Congress, plus one for each Senator. This guaranteed that all of the states would be equally represented and that states with larger populations would have more electoral votes than the small states.

The Electoral College of today has become a corrupt body, controlled by political parties and has become a tool in the hands of the financial elite to control who is elected President.

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The idea of "winner take all" is ridiculous. Forcing all of the state electors to "pre-pledge" their votes for the winner of the state's popular vote is unfair and deprives the people of having their vote counted.

The Great Compromise

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  • Gilbert Stuart's 1796 oil on canvas portrait of George Washington is pictured. | AP Photo


    SOURCE: “FOUNDING THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY,” BY RICHARD ELLIS (1999)

    In 1789, the person with the most votes became president; the runner-up became vice president.

    First election for president held, Jan. 7, 1789

    On this day in 1789, the United States held its first presidential election, in accordance with procedures set out in the Constitution, which had crossed the ratification barrier of nine states in 1788.

    With George Washington’s presidency ensured, the one issue was who would serve as vice president. Under the system in place, each elector cast two votes. The person with the most votes became president; the runner-up became vice president.

    All 69 electors cast one of their votes for Washington. Their second votes were scattered among 11 candidates. John Adams of Massachusetts, who received 36 votes, emerged as vice president. Nobody else came close. With seven, John Jay of New York got the most votes of the remaining contenders.

    The 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, changed this procedure. It requires each elector to cast a separate vote for president and vice president.

    Ten states of the original 13 sent delegates to the Electoral College. Only six chose their electors on the basis of the popular vote. Even those who did imposed a varied schedule of restrictions on suffrage, based on minimum property requirements.

    All in all, fewer than 1½ percent of the non slave  population — about 2.4 million people at the time — cast ballots.

    The 1824 presidential election was the first election in American history in which the popular vote mattered, as 18 states chose presidential electors by popular vote in 1824 (six states still left the choice up to their state legislatures).

    Since the New York Legislature failed to appoint its allotted eight electors in time, that state did not participate. Neither did North Carolina or Rhode Island. Two electors from Maryland did not vote.

    For the first presidential election, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia each cast 10 electoral votes. Connecticut and South Carolina followed with seven votes apiece. New Jersey and Maryland were each allocated six votes. Georgia garnered five, and tiny Delaware trailed the rest with merely three — the same number it holds today.

    The Preamble to the Constitution states "We the People of the united States" but should have read "We the People of the several states". The Constitution was not ratified by the people collectively, it was ratified by the people in each of the 13 states,

    Many people fail to recognize that the united States is not a country, it is a union of sovereign states. Delegates of the states wrote the Constitution and the people of the states ratified it.

    When we elect a President, the winning candidate is not chosen by the popular vote of the people, but is chosen by states. This system guarantees that each state will be represented in the selection based on their population.

    If we were to abolish the Electoral College we would create a democracy and would eliminate the checks and balances that protect the people from the tyranny of a majority. 

    The direct election of senators authorized by the 17th Amendment  turned our bicameral Congress into a unicameral legislature with two houses representing the same constituency. What this amendment did was convert our republic into a democracy.

    Article V in the Constitution mandates that under no circumstances can a state be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate without their consent. There are currently seven states that have not ratified the 17th Amendment and are not obligated to comply with this amendment that deprives them of their right to equal suffrage in the senate..

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