EDITORIAL THE UNPOPULAR VOTE.IF a goofy bill passed by the California Assembly had been law in 2004, California would have given its 55 Electoral College electoral college, in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, votes to George W. Bush. Never mind that the state's voters backed John Kerry  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , 54 percent to 44 percent. The absurd logic behind AB 2948 is to effectively do away with the Electoral College and elect presidents by popular vote. The bill would bind the state to give its electoral votes to the national popular-vote winner if enough other states agree to do the same. But it's doubtful the scheme would even work. When you vote for a candidate in a presidential election, you're really voting for electors electors, in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors). who are chosen by the political parties. And it's doubtful that any law could get these partisans to deliberately hand over an election to the other party's candidate. If state legislators really want to get rid of the Electoral College, then the sensible, decent way to do that is to amend the U.S. Constitution. Meanwhile, if they're serious about making elections more democratic, they can start by getting rid of their own gerrymandered districts. This is the kind of ploy that makes the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: house of ill repute A brothel; bordello. . |
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