usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world · edit-21 month agoWalz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1502arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-21 month agoThere’s still the electoral college which needs to go, creating a half-assed workaround which could easily be dissolved is not a fix. It’s nothing other than a spit and a handshake
minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s more than a “handshake”. States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there’s nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes Once it’s been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though
There’s still the electoral college which needs to go, creating a half-assed workaround which could easily be dissolved is not a fix. It’s nothing other than a spit and a handshake
It’s more than a “handshake”. States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there’s nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes
Once it’s been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though