Posted on 11/22/2016 10:44:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Charles B. Rangel introduced, H.J. Res 103, a bill today that would allow Congress to vote to eliminate the Electoral College system and decide future presidential elections by the outcome of the popular vote. This legislation is the House companion bill to S.J.Res.41, introduced by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on November 15, 2016.
“I came to Congress on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, and I know how hard we fought for the sacred right to vote,” said Rangel. “To protect it, everyone should have access to the vote, and every vote must count. The fact that a candidate can receive more votes than the other but lose the election is fundamentally undemocratic.”
Secretary Hillary Clinton, who received at least 62,825,754 votes in the presidential election, won the popular vote over Donald Trump. It is estimated that by the time all the votes are counted, Secretary Clinton may win the popular vote by over two million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points. However, Secretary Clinton lost the Electoral College 232 to 306. This makes Donald Trump the fifth person in U.S. history and the second this century to lose the popular vote and still win the presidency.
The Boxer-Rangel legislation seeks to amend the U.S. Constitution and abolish the Electoral College. The amendment would take effect if ratified by three-fourths of the states within seven years after its passage in the U.S. Congress.
“It is time that we do away the antiquated and obsolete Electoral College system. True democracy should guarantee one person, one vote,” Rangel added.
Congressman Charles B. Rangel, who represents the 13th Congressional District of New York that includes Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx, will be retiring at the end of the 114th Congress after 46 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is currently the second longest serving member in the U.S. Congress. A champion of civil rights, he marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 with John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr.
Text of Bill below:
H. J. RES. 103
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the Electoral College and to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice-president of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
The President and Vice President shall be jointly elected by the direct vote of the qualified electors of the several States and territories and the District constituting the seat of Government of the United States. The electors in each State, territory, and the District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the legislative body where they reside.
Congress may determine the time, place, and manner of holding the election, the entitlement to inclusion on the ballot, and the manner in which the results of the election shall be ascertained and declared.
Someone inform the gangsta that we live in a Republic.
Rangel is proof only the good die young.
IQ test warranted.
yeah Dems. That’s how you win over Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Make them irrelevant!
That old crook still around?
Rangel is wanting to subvert our nation, it’s laws and turn it over to leftist fascists.
He wants to establish a dictator. We have already had 8 years under a dictatorship with Obama.
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie...
Someone needs to tell him it is in the Constitution. A simple law won’t eliminate it... What an idiot.
You can’t just pass a law! You need a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of the EC!
He really is as dumb as he looks!
Shut up, you old criminal.
rangel-—is he the one who got busted for dealing drugs? or the one who said we landed on mars? or who said some island may tip over? or who got busted getting cash from his flooded new orlens hovel? or the one who...
Ah, there they go with that “democracy” word again. If they want a “ true “ democracy they may end up bringing in some laws they won’t like. All Muslims could be banned by a simple majority vote.
When people get old and don’t change their ways, it tells me they’re atheist.
Rangel who was awarded an F failing grade by numbers usa becuase he supports an open border is also staunchly against voter ID, and now he proposes to ban the electoral college. Basically he is saying that people living anywhere on the planet, who are not even stakeholders to the US should be the ones to decide who governs its citizens... BS
Some one should introduce a law that removes any member of the government that states the USA is a democracy and not a republic.
Sorry, Charlie. The Electoral College is here to stay....much longer than your sorry ass will be around.
Now all he has to do is get 2/3 of both houses and 37 states to sign on.
They never stop. Even after a massive loss, they keep coming. GOPe could learn something from these SOBs. What does the GOPe do? Somehow get to Trump and convince him not to prosecute Hillary, and other things: a softening of his position on climate change, an ever shortening wall, etc. Hillary should be in prison! But loser Rangel is going after the electoral college, as radical a position as anything out there. From someone in the party that lost big. You’d think that ‘rats won big. Arghhh!
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