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Tuesday, December 27th, 2022

Jamie Raskin: electoral college is a ‘danger to the American people’

Author:     Ramon Antonio Vargas
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Publication Date:     Mon 26 Dec 2022 | 09.26 EST
 Link: Jamie Raskin: electoral college is a ‘danger to the American people’
Stephan:   I completely agree with Raskin. The Electoral College, should be eliminated. It was created as a scheme put together originally to satisfy the slave states with smaller populations, just as Blacks were counted as 3/5s of a White person. The college is distorting our democracy, skewing it in favor of the smaller states, which is to say the Republicans. We should, as a matter of principle, as Raskin asserts, elect the President and Vice President on the basis of how many votes each candidate gets.
‘We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, representatives, everybody else – whoever gets the most votes wins.’ Credit: Michael Reynolds / EPA

Recent reforms to the laws governing the counting of electoral college votes for presidential races are “not remotely sufficient” to prevent another attack like the one carried out by Donald Trump supporters at the Capitol on January 6, a member of the congressional committee which investigated the uprising has warned.

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In an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, the Maryland House representative Jamie Raskin on Sunday renewed calls echoed by others – especially in the Democratic party to which he belongs – to let a popular vote determine the holder of the Oval Office.

“We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, representatives, everybody else – whoever gets the most votes wins,” Raskin said. “We spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year exporting American democracy to other countries, and the […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 3:20 pm

    To allow all votes to make a difference, we need to eliminate the Electoral College.