#Electoral States

[destielmemenews]

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

I got an email from the radical pride organizers today that listed all the other vendors and found out the DSA & Socialist Alternative will both be there lol. So I did some last minute printing to counter their influence at the event.

[sleepnoises]

in re ballot phraseology btw I'm crazy spoiled by living in california, one of 8?? states that allow all elections to be done by mail. i am never in a booth when i vote. i am in my home and i am googling things

[nemo-bros]

please for the love of god go sign this!!

I try not to get political on this blog, and I dont always have the same opportunity to participate in democracy in my country

but trump vs kamala is literally life vs death for individuals in my situation and thousands of others

this means more to me than anything ever

[starriskiesstuff]

at this point we should seriously give every other country an electoral vote. really, they all deserve it with how much anything the us does is going to end up becoming their problem.

[more-flotsam-and-jetsam]

The United States Constitutional process to elect a President

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Could I ask you to explain, in simple terms, what is the electoral college? I tried reading the wikipedia article but I just couldn't understand anything.

Basically every state gets a determined number of electors, and the electors vote on who gets to be president. The electors do not neatly scale with how many people are in that state, so some states have disproportionate voting power. Meaning that even if the popular vote favors one president (as has happened before), if the other one gets enough votes in the right states, the electors have to elect them instead. That's how Trump became president despite having 2 million less votes than Hilary Clinton: he won in the states that are disproportionately favored by the electoral college.

And yes, we have been trying to reform or abolish the thing since 1800, with the closest we came to it being in 1969 when Nixon got elected, and which got all the way to the Senate floor before it was filibustered to death by states that enjoy disproportionate voting power. And Nixon won the popular vote.

[relaxedstyles]

[minecraftian1213]

I dont know if it will work, but guys, given the iffy-ness of the Popular Vote counts, I have an idea. Could we not call our State Representatives and declare that we would not be voting for them next term unless they get ahold of the Electoral College and get these results turned around?

It's only happened maybe four times in history that the Electoral College ignored what the Popular Vote said and chose the other party. That happened in 2016, Hillary won Popular but Trump won Electoral.

Do you guys think something like that would work?

[liesmyth]

adding Kamala to my blacklisted words because people won't fucking tag their uspol posts

[aethersea]

idk I don't really understand the stance of "I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, so I'm just not going to vote." would you rather have the greater of two evils, then? we're not voting for the lesser evil because we just love evil so dang much, it's because between a lesser evil and a greater evil, there is a significant difference. and we only get one of the two. there is no third option.

[flying-cat]

THANK YOU CALIFORNIA THANK YOU WASHINGTON

[captainjonnitkessler]

Younger liberals in my social media echo chambers: Ha, Kamala Harris is going to kick Trump's ass! Can you imagine his tantrum when he loses to a woman? I can't wait to elect our first female President this November!

Me:

[miochimochi]

"If you don't vote for Biden, Trump will win and millions will die, there will be concentration camps for gays, all the brown people will be glassed, it'll be the end of the world! 😭"

That's some big ass fucking fear mongering. These people aren't driven by logic, they're driven purely by emotion. Remember how much people were treating Trump like the second coming of Hitler last time? Remember how much fuck all he did that everyone cried like it was the end of everything over? He did as much as any other fucking president. He helped the government erode freedom. It just had a red coat of fucking paint. And then Biden came into office. And you now what happened? He did as much as any other fucking president. He helped the government erode freedom. It just had a blue coat of fucking paint.

Do you get the fucking picture?

[half-life-crisis]

The #HarrisWalz2024 ticket is performing phenomenally as the #Trump2024Vance ticket falling is approaching terminal velocity, but this electoral #race is far from over.

https://halflifecrisis.com/hlc-articles/democrats-you-aint-winning-yet…

#Follow us as we'll be talking about #electoral #topics #people seem to misunderstand.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Martha Stoddard at Omaha World-Herald:

LINCOLN — Nebraska appears unlikely to adopt a winner-take-all model of awarding Electoral College votes, despite renewed pressure from prominent Republicans, according to a key state senator. That pressure included a visit to the state by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and a letter supporting the change signed by all five members of Nebraska's congressional delegation Wednesday. 

The South Carolina Republican met with Gov. Jim Pillen and several Republican state senators to call for Nebraska to ditch its system of awarding three of its five electoral votes based on the winner in each of the three congressional districts. State Sen. Loren Lippincott of Central City said Graham gave an impassioned speech about the potential consequences of Nebraska's current system, namely the possibility that the state could provide the vote needed for a Democratic victory in the presidential race.  [...]

The letter from the congressional delegation, all of whom are Republican, did not change any minds either, he said. The letter was sent to Gov. Jim Pillen and Speaker of the Legislature John Arch of La Vista. It said Nebraska should join 48 other states in using the winner-take-all allocation system, arguing that the state should speak with a united voice in presidential elections. [...]

"At this time, I have not yet received the concrete and public indication that 33 senators would vote for WTA (winner-take-all)," he said. "If that changes, I will enthusiastically call a special session.”

Any changes would have to occur before the Nov. 5 election, according to the Secretary of State's Office. Federal law prohibits any changes in law affecting an election after it occurs.  Nebraska and Maine are the only states that allow their electoral votes to be split. In every other state, all electoral votes are awarded based on the statewide winner. Nebraska has divided its electoral votes twice, leading some to dub Omaha the "Blue Dot" on the electoral map. The first time was in 2008, when the Omaha-area 2nd District's electoral vote went to Democrat Barack Obama and the rest of the state's went to Republican John McCain.

In 2020, the 2nd District vote went to Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate who went on to win the national election, and the others to Donald Trump, the GOP candidate.

Republicans in Nebraska are seeking to rig the Electoral College by changing Nebraska back to winner-take-all like the other 48 states and by weakening Omaha’s voice in the process. As of now, they are set to be short in their quest to upend election rules.

See Also:

HuffPost: In Late Push To Help Trump, Nebraska GOP Might Take An Electoral Vote Away From Kamala Harris