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Fuzzy Dunlop
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What's this?
The shenanigans cut both ways, of course
I'm sure we'll see plenty of "security measures" this November around heavily Democratic precincts to "avoid the possibility of terrorism," and, of course, curb voter fraud.
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Will Virginia Drop the Electoral College?
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Hoos Operator
02/18/2020 09:09AM
The same people that shriek about election integrity continue to make it
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HokieDan95
02/18/2020 10:39AM
The shenanigans cut both ways, of course
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Fuzzy Dunlop
02/18/2020 2:58PM
Essentially making VA voters' votes less valuable/impactful than voters
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CharlestonSC
02/18/2020 10:13AM
How dare we treat the Presidential Election like every other US election
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WahooMatt05
02/18/2020 09:41AM
Yay, let’s let California and New York pick our Presidents for us. **
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JMHoo
02/18/2020 09:14AM
It seems odd that any state would surrender their voting/political power
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HWA
02/18/2020 10:11AM
Or, let's let the candidate with the most votes be the winner **
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wahoo138
02/18/2020 09:36AM
Don’t think they have enough population between them to decide a vote
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111Balz
02/18/2020 09:19AM
Truth is, it is calibrated to current population distributions.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 09:58AM
I am not sure how you can say that when millions of voters have their votes
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111Balz
02/18/2020 11:07AM
The electoral college is recalibrated when the House is recalibrated.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 12:06PM
But again this is for one election, one branch of the government.
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111Balz
02/18/2020 12:37PM
Right. Including all those regions that would have no say without the
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 12:57PM
You mean, if the people who choose to live in
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111Balz
02/18/2020 1:17PM
There doesn’t need to be a recalibration
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TomKazanski
02/18/2020 09:22AM
When millions of citizens essentially don’t have a vote
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111Balz
02/18/2020 09:26AM
Don't you think that's what the Va idea would do?
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 10:08AM
I am not in favor of the Va idea, for the reasons you expressed **
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111Balz
02/18/2020 10:53AM
And it would be even worse with a national popular vote
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Faz d. Hoo
02/18/2020 09:39AM
How do you figure? **
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 09:50AM
If you live in "fly over" country, and the coasts + maybe Chicago and a
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 10:12AM
Sounds like you are saying that all the votes in
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 10:21AM
Those are two mutually exclusive scenarios.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 10:34AM
But that was more of an issue of getting "independent states" to give up
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111Balz
02/18/2020 10:59AM
For the very reason that we have Donald Trump. Not a result I like.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 12:02PM
A case can be made that Trump proved the system doesn’t work
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111Balz
02/18/2020 12:39PM
The electoral college provides protections in this day and age
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 1:08PM
So affirmativeaction for rural voters? As for the framers, the also
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 10:53AM
Of course not, but since the vast majority of states that get a say in
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 11:00AM
STATES should not get a say, people should. 10 million farmers spread
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 11:09AM
Yes they should, that's the federalist structure intended.
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hoodeyo
02/18/2020 12:45PM
The nation is organized into smaller political units called states.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 11:51AM
Who doesn’t have a vote
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TomKazanski
02/18/2020 09:35AM
His point is that Alabamans and Wyomingites don't really have a vote
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Faz d. Hoo
02/18/2020 09:41AM
And the poor millions of GOPers in CA, NY, IL, etc. **
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Hoodafan
02/18/2020 09:44AM
And Texas and Florida **
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tchoo
02/18/2020 09:18AM
Rather than WI and PA? I have an idea... let's give everybody a vote then
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 09:20AM
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