Rep files amendment to kill Electoral College
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee thinks it’s time to do away with the Electoral College.
The Memphis Democrat filed a constitutional amendment Thursday that calls for eliminating the electoral college and allowing for direct election of the president and vice president.
The congressman’s amendment comes as Democrat Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote in last month’s presidential election topped 2.5 million. Clinton lost the electoral college — and the presidency — to Republican Donald Trump.
“For the second time in recent memory, and for the fifth time in our history, we have a president-elect, who lost the popular vote,” said Cohen, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
“The Electoral College is an antiquated system that was established to prevent citizens from directly electing our nation’s president, yet that notion is antithetical to our understanding of democracy,” Cohen said. “In our country, ‘We the People’ are supposed to determine who represents us in elective office.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-files-amendment-to-kill-electoral-college/ar-AAl2o7g?li=BBnbfcL
Not that I think this will go anywhere
