Voting: No More Electoral College. Popular Vote!

REAL Consent of “The People”: A Proposal to Fix Our Nation’s Voting Procedures Legislation Proposed by: Harry Miree AND Brett Walker

OUR CURRENT SYSTEM

Many years ago, our forefathers established a democracy here in the United States of America.

Democracy, as defined by government studies expert known in Alabama as Pridmore, is simply “Rule by consent of the people.”

OUR SYSTEM (continued)

Having established that we are to be ruled by the consent of the people,

…And also that all citizens are equal under our law,

…Our current system of electing the president lies in the hands of the few that comprise The Electoral College .

Let’s take a look at what that means.

Golly! I can’t wait to vote! Yay! Will my vote count? Awww…….. Sure, go right ahead. Nope. Hahaha.

Golly! I can’t wait to vote! Yay! Will my vote count? Hoorah! Sure, go right ahead. Yep. Indeed.

But I thought “Democracy” meant “rule by consent of the people!” Was Coach Pridmore wrong?

No. He absolutely was not. Our voting system is wrong.

WITH OUR SYSTEM

It is possible to have 10,000,000 (that’s 10 million!) more votes received than the opponent and STILL lose the election.

If we were to take a vote on preferred flavor of ice cream between chocolate and vanilla in this classroom…

Let’s say 20 voted chocolate and 30 voted vanilla, but chocolate gets declared the favorite. You would think the world were on crack!

WITH OUR SYSTEM

It’s possible to lose in 39 states and STILL win the presidency!

That’s like saying there are only 11 United States of America!

Are the other 39 just not important enough?

We must bring an end to this preposterous nonsense of electoral protocol.

THEREFORE:

We hereby resolve that the following amendment be made to our constitution:

1.) The electoral college be hereby abolished from the election process in The United States of America. 2.) A new and more simple form of election called popular vote be adopted and implemented, taking effect in the 2008 presidential election.

Huh? What’s “Popular Vote”?

Popular vote is the truest form of voting. It assesses EXACTLY how many people wish each candidate to take office.

If 10 people want Bubba to take office and 4 people want Josephus to take office, then, by golly, Bubba shall take office!

Thus, we have rule truly by the consent of the people.

If the electoral college is so bad, why was it here to start with?

At the time that the electoral college originated in our nation’s history, our country was much smaller and politically different.

The year was 1787- there were no T.V’s to educate the public about politics. Therefore, the small group that became known as the electoral college decided upon the presidents for our nation.

However,

Now, all citizens have active access to political knowledge; thus, we all have equally legitimate opinions. How is it fair that someone else decide what we want?

(Hint: It’s not.)

The electoral college is outdated. We must do away with it.

Why does it make a difference how we vote?

We the people have been let down by our electoral college SEVERAL times in our nation’s tainted election history.

Let’s go back in time and see what happened.

1824 The election is over. How’d I do? You won the most votes! Sweet! So I’m the president? Nope. Aww…….

HEADLINES

Electoral College no good.

Baby Boomers don’t like it.

2000 The election is over. How’d I do? You didn’t get the most votes. More people don’t want you in office than do want you in office. Uhh…so does that mean I’m the president? Well, you shouldn’t be. But you are. Dude. Texas.

So, kids, you can all thank the Electoral College for the fact that I, George W Bush, am your presidentiator. This shows that any feet is possibilistic in this great democracy of ours.

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Decision is Simple.