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| 11-12-16
| Dave Liep
Posted on 11/12/2016 12:22:31 AM PST by Az Joe
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To: oblomov
They don’t.
It should be required, because as things stand, the absentee voters are disenfranchised. They are just absentees, not voters.
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posted on
11/12/2016 6:42:35 AM PST
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Tennessee Conservative
” How can the candidate that lost end up with more popular votes overall than the candidate that won the individual states popular vote/electoral votes?”
That is easy. Here is a simple example: take every state that Trump won and give him a popular vote majority of 1 voter. He therefore still gets his 270 electoral votes. Now take the states that Hillary won and do the same thing, except in California and New York. In those two states give her 70% of the vote. Now you have a situation in which Trump wins his 270 + electoral votes, but Hillary wins the popular vote Nationwide.
Yes, that is a rather extreme and absurd exempt, but it is not terribly far from what actually happened. By the way, the founding fathers would not be terribly upset by this. The reason is because they wanted to avoid a situation in which the larger States could dominate the smaller states by virtue of their larger populations. Remember, democracy without any constraints on the majority is the worst form of tyranny imaginable. 50% + 1 could literally enslave the remaining 50% - 1, with the stroke of a pen.
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posted on
11/12/2016 6:49:20 AM PST
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Tennessee Conservative
How can the candidate that lost end up with more popular votes overall than the candidate that won the individual states popular vote/electoral votes?
The Electoral College was designed to help small population states have a better representation against large population states.
Without the EC, politicians would only campaign in states having the largest cities, because city population numbers tend to be greater than rural population numbers. Guess where most Libs live. That is why they want to do away with the Electoral College.
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posted on
11/12/2016 6:50:16 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Grimmy
Just think the FBI can go thru 650k in three days, I would think they could check 150million in a month. Really my bank can check way more than that in in month.
To: Az Joe
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posted on
11/13/2016 3:43:28 AM PST
by
HarleyD
To: Az Joe
The states elect the President. Period.
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posted on
11/13/2016 3:47:35 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles)
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