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How the American Elections Have Become Something of a Joke – The Electoral College Problem

 
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How the American Elections Have Become Something of a Joke – The Electoral College Problem
How the American Elections Have BecomeSomething of a Joke – The Electoral College Problem


America must change the way we are currently voting, because if we don't, America will never truly have a fair election. For the most part, your vote really means very little, as the vote has been manipulated into an invisible digit, only used when and if needed. This invisible vote might or might not be used depending on the whims of the electoral masters.

The voter casts his ballot, usually proud of his country and wanting to do the right thing, anxious to see his favorite candidate win. Only problem is, that vote has been manipulated, contorted and bushwhacked come election day. You can take that to the Electoral College bank.

Our founding fathers in my opinion, got this one wrong. You see they wanted to insure fairness and they took it a little too far. They wanted to create a void between the population and the direct election of our president. This was to prevent a man of great power (able to con or threaten the public) to influence the vote. Problem is, by instituting the Electoral College, the wealthy and powerful have been able to do just that, influence the vote. It all has turned on it's miserable corrupt head, turned upside down by greed.

Alexander Hamilton wrote,

“It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations. It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President of the United States. But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief.”

So for the sake of not having to go into a lot of detail and confusing subject matter, lets just fast tract the 23rd Amendmentand the 1960's.

The 23rd Amendment of the Constitution was established in 1960 to give the District of Columbia residents the legal right to vote, because the District of Columbia wasn't a state, so they had to find a way to allow the residents to legally vote, but because the district was so small, finding a way for the residents to be represented fairly was going to have to incorporate the rules of the Electoral College. This was to guarantee a fair representation compared to the rest of the United States.

The rest of the United States ratified this going forward in 1961 and here we are today, stuck with the same system, and it's not going to change unless we add another Amendment to the United States Constitution, and even then, by law, three quarters of the states are going to have to "go along" for that to even happen. This moment in time cannot come soon enough.

There are 538 total electoral votes possible and 270 of those votes are needed to win the presidential election. Think about that for a moment. There are 310,000,000 million people in America, not withstanding the illegal aliens, and only 270 votes required to win a presidential election. If a 270 number cannot be reached, the House of Representatives takes over via the 12th Amendment, and elects the president. This has only happened twice in Americas history.

So how do we figure how many electors there are?

“Each State is allocated a number of electors equal to the number of its U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives. The number of electors for a State is based on the number of members in the House of Representatives who represent the State, plus two for the State's Senators. A State's Congressional delegation is determined by the State's population.
The number of people in each State is determined by the Federal census, which is taken every ten years and includes a count of every State's population”.

So who elects the electors?

“The process for selecting electors varies throughout the United States. Generally, the political parties nominate electors at their State party conventions or by a vote of the party's central committee in each State. Electors are often selected to recognize their service and dedication to their political party. They may be State elected officials, party leaders, or persons who have a personal or political affiliation with the Presidential candidate. Then the voters in each State choose the electors on the day of the general election. The electors' names may or may not appear on the ballot below the name of the candidates running for President, depending on the procedure in each State.”


This was all created to give the smaller states some fairness compared to the larger states when voting. The problem with all of this is, there are ways to manipulate the population counts. Lets just look at the illegal aliens for example, all 20 or so million of them. Starting to see the problem now? We have other countries indirectly deciding who the hell are next president is going to be, just by being counted in a census count.

The mandated process we have now (Electoral College) gives the winner all of the votes for that particular state. The winner being the electoral delegate. It doesn't matter if the delgate wins the state by 35% or 94.5 % of the vote, the presidential candidate still receives the same amount of electoral votes.

So one presidential candidate can win a state by the popular vote by a huge margin, while another can win by the electoral vote. The electoral vote is the one that is going to be counted in the end, negating the popular vote. This is where most people become confused and rightly so, normally you would think the popular vote is what democracy is all about, NOPE, not in America ,and that's a problem, big time.


There is an exception to this winner take all rule. Maine and Nebraska are not held to the above rules.


“Only two States, Nebraska and Maine, do not follow the winner-takes-all rule. In those States, there could be a split of electoral votes among candidates through the State's system for proportional allocation of votes. For example, Maine has four electoral votes and two Congressional districts. It awards one electoral vote per Congressional district and two by the state-wide, "at-large" vote. It is possible for Candidate A to win the first district and receive one electoral vote, Candidate B to win the second district and receive one electoral vote, and Candidate C, who finished a close second in both the first and second districts, to win the two at-large electoral votes. Although this is a possible scenario, it has not actually occurred in recent elections.”

confusing isn't it? Too much gobble de gook for such a thing as electing our president. Things must change!



That is just one of the problems associated with all of this. The other problem is the way the officials can manipulate by way of redistricting or gerrymandering. The electoral process is divided up by districts, and there lies the rub. Big districts many times have big money living there, and these rich people want their votes to count. Many of our leaders have used this scam to get their unpopular asses elected. This is probably one of the largest scams the American voter has to put up with today.

When you are gerrymandering you are moving around the population to suit the needs of the candidate that needs more help in getting elected. You are also gerrymandering to the people within that district, usually all of whom have a lot of money. Starting to get the drift now?

Doing so, by way of the most population within a certain district for nothing more than votes. One of the oldest tricks in the book, especially because of the huge illegal alien populations. I won't go into much detail because I will just bore the hell out of you, if I haven't already; lets just say, read this to understand the implications.

Hopefully, we here at the Trenches World Report, have cleared up some of the questions pertaining the American voting problems that have clouded our vote. It is time we just go back to the simple popular vote and alleviate the possibilities of fraud and corruption from the rich. We have had too many elections that have gone the wrong way, and many more to come, because of this current system.


[link to fromthetrenchesworldreport.com]





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