10th District Court of Appeals Electoral College decision.

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  1. Reality

    Reality Well-Known Member

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    Except that would unconstitutionally tie their vote to the vote of non state actors. You might as well say they could peg it to behaviors of Pauksetawny Phil.
    They can peg it to a state election only, not the result of 50 separate state elections.

    Which is what this case was about. But you keep telling yourself that, ok?
     
  2. JakeStarkey

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    Nothing unconstitutional about it at all is the point.

    The Constitution gives the states the power to make up their own election procedures.

    So the fact, the object fact, is that the 10th will be overturned.
     
  3. 61falcon

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    States were allowed to replace those who did not vote the way the state went.The court ruled they should not have been allowed to do that, and now they can't.
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Majority wins means that the votes of 49% of the voters do not count. it means all of the electors go to the candidate even though only 51% were won.

    That is unacceptable.
     
  5. JakeStarkey

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    Not to worry, SCOTUS will crush the 10th's opinion.
     
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    Amen . Sleep easy.
     
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    No ... the SCOTUS, will uphold the constitution, and it's precisely for that reason that (D) lawbreakers Whitehouse, Hirono, Gillibrand, Blumenthal, and Durbin threatened the current 9 supreme court justices.
     
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    Get back to me when the SCotus issues a concurring opinion.
     
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    California and New York need to use proportional representation with their electoral college votes, based on the percentage the presidential candidates get in those states.
     
  10. Gdawg007

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    The electoral college hasn't functioned as originally written in the constitution for quite a while now. I'm not sure what the OP's point is anymore than yours is about it.
     
  11. JakeStarkey

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    The NPV then seem secure in light of the 10th's ruling, whether SCOTUS should concur or not.
     
  12. 61falcon

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    What this court decision is actually saying is that our every 4 year vote to elect a president and V.P. is really an exercise in futility and meaningless since we elect no one.The representatives appointed by the political hacks do the real electing!!!We need to get RID OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ASAP and have a REAL DEMOCRACY!!!!
     
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    Was it a real democracy that awarded Hillary with super delegates and thus the nomination before the first primary vote was cast?
     
  14. 61falcon

    61falcon Well-Known Member

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    Campaign Super delegates have ZERO to do with those appointed to the electoral college!!!
     
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    Huh?

    Where?
     
  16. 61falcon

    61falcon Well-Known Member

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    Spending BILLIONS every 4 years on a presidential election that elects no one seems to me to be a disgusting waste of taxpayers money and a very cruel trick on those who still believe they elected a president and VP!!!
     

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