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Other than all of 1 breaking the law 2 getting caught and 3 there being at least one person with an ounce of integrity to uphold said law.
So basically nothing anymore.
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Submitted 6 months ago by Yggnar@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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db2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tradition…
It’s another one of those things where we’re not going to codify it because Republicans want it as a pocket ace, and moderates control party policy and they just have a phobia of admitting anything actually needs fixed, let alone fixing it.
But the electors in most states can do what they want
32 states + DC are legally required to vote for the party that nominated them as electors tho.
So some are “locked in”, the rest can pretty much do what they want. I know some states are on an “interstate compact” where once they get enough states it triggers them having to vote for the national popular vote winner.
But I’m not sure what the overlap is with the ones who already have the requirement to vote for the party that appointed them or how that will shake out.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are already members of the ‘winning’ party in their state, aren’t they?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Uh that’s what lobbying is basically, but this election showed us that you just need to control the media, both social and otherwise
dhork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Two reasons:
First, in many states the electors are bound by law to support the candidate that wins the popular vote in their state. The penalties may vary, but the intent is clear: to make sure people realize it is against the law in that state.
But the second reason is that each campaign actually picks their own electors ahead of time. So it’s not like the state has one set that will vote either way, and who can be persuaded. All of the state that votes for Harris are sending electors their campaign hand-picked, and likewise for Trump. So each side is sending their own very partisan people, whose political success is tied to their party. Violating that will ruin their political career in that party.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is all a very convoluted system. What we should do is make it much more simple.
Take Harris, and trump. Put them in a big venue, like a football stadium, and then fill the ground level with axes and swords, and shields, and maces (the swinging spikey ball kind).
And just let them go at it until we have a victor.
Then, that victor has to solve a series of puzzles. If they can, they win.
I would also accept a revival of the 1990s version of the tv show American Gladiators. Mostly because I love that show.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You want President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?
Asafum@feddit.nl 6 months ago
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Asafum@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Honestly this is so stupid if I understand their reasoning for existing in the first place. Unless I’m misunderstanding they were supposed to exist literally for this exact election, where the people elected an absolute atrocity of a person and “our betters” would recognize that and vote against him.
We should just do away with it if we have no interest in utilizing them for their actual purposes.
False@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sending people to represent how a state voted makes more sense in the context of the 18 century without phones.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Yes, electoral college should be abolished. It’s probably not gonna happen though, so this is a temporary band-aid solution that many states have implemented.
EABOD25@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The popular vote be damned