Ginsburg wants to change the Electoral College

[Little Star]

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she wants to change the Electoral College.

Asked at Stanford University on Monday night about what she would like to change, Ginsburg exclaimed, "the Electoral College!" She also decried partisanship and lamented the death penalty during her appearance at Stanford, according to the Mercury News.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ginsburg-wants-to-change-the-electoral-college/article/2614110#.WJn0lEaeU3g.facebook

Hear, hear!!!!

[AgadorSparticus]

1. Me too! It sort of defies democracy to have something like that.

[BainsBane]

2. I hope she's taking lots of resveritol

of whatever makes people live a really long time.

[democratisphere]

3. You mean the actual voters will decide who becomes president.

What a great idea!

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Or Just Force It To Be Proportional

Then there are no more winner take all states. That's even more undemocratic than the electors themselves.

[DarleenMB]

16. Why is that "undemocratic?"

The election of the President of the United States is not a state-by-state referendum. It is a vote by ALL THE CITIZENS. So why on earth do people think that it should be "proportional?" Honestly, who cares how many people in California voted for someone versus how many people in Wyoming voted for someone else in a NATIONAL election? that's nonsense.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Because Today, You Win 50.1% and Get All The Votes

How Is that democratic? 49.9% of voters don't get represented at all?

I don't think you understand what i'm saying. CA gets way more electors than WY and they should. There 40 times the people. But, a fairly big state like Ohio goes for "It" by a half percent over HRC and he gets 100% of the votes. It's why he won!!!

What the heck are you talking about with regard to proportionality not being more democratic than what they do now?

Then, the EC would actually be a buffer vs. a madman, because it would only take a few electors in each state to say, "no i can't in good conscience let this person be POTUS." In this last election, the number who would have to flip against HRC was a pretty big number so would have taken way too many "defectors". In fact, there would have to be no defectors from "it" because he would have lost a proportional EC vote.

[Qutzupalotl]

19. Actually, it is state-by-state.

Each state runs their own elections. Not just for state and local offices, but federal as well. Changing that would require a constitutional amendment.

[Skittles]

5. the Electoral College once had a purpose

now it is causing the very kind of damage it was meant to avoid

[Hekate]

10. X 10000

[Blue_true]

13. It never had a purpose, it and the allocating of Senators

Was intended to give slave states more power in government than their populations warranted.

[Little Star]

18. Bingo!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Shame she can't write executive orders

Every form of social organization in every culture turns to its
wisest elders for guidance and direction

And we are led by the dumbest of all

[randr]

7. The Republic are in a position to take control of enough States at which point

they will be able to convene for a Continental Congress and re-draft the Constitution to their liking.
Evil is as evil does.

[IronLionZion]

8. I pray she's staying healthy and lives a long life

Scalia definitely did not believe in healthy living

[mr_liberal]

9. She should have retired for Obama. nm

[Hekate]

11. Think about what you just said. Then the GOP would have two seats to fill now.

[mr_liberal]

14. Four, you forgot Kagan and Sotomayor. /s nm

[INdemo]

12. This election the electoral college did exactly what it wasn't suppose to do

http://www.historycentral.com/elections/Electoralcollgewhy.html


"Hamilton and the other founders believed that the electors would be able to insure that only a qualified person becomes President. They believed that with the Electoral College no one would be able to manipulate the citizenry. It would act as check on an electorate that might be duped.The founders also believed that the Electoral College had the advantage of being a group that met only once and thus could not be manipulated over time by foreign governments or others."

[redwitch]

15. I love that fierce little woman!

Be well Justice Ginsburg!