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In reply to the discussion: If it is not stopped, the Republican war on democracy will tear this nation apart [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)saying rigging the Electoral vote is legal because the pundits and politicians say so. They say it is legal because two rural states with very little populations have this system. Nobody paid any attention to those systems or challenge it because they never threatened an Election on the national level.
Show me the court ruling these pundits and politicians say this is legal versus the court ruling in 1962 saying this was illegal on the local level in the state of Alabama by the U.S. Supreme Court? That court ruling filed against the state of Alabama for diluting the voting power of the city of Birmingham. That is how we got one man, one vote. There are several other cases and one was in California involving the cities of San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles where the complainant tried to dilute the votes of those cities. He loss the case and pointed to the national election with the President and Senate.
The pundits and politicians take the Constitution and interpret it to fit want accommodates them at a certain point in time. There is no time in the history of this country a President did not win the State that he won the popular vote in this country. People site one of two cases on the overall vote on the national level but not involving individual states.
If you can select a President with you theory on districts, then why not electing both Senators and the Governor that way too? They can lose the popular votes of the citizens on the local level too and win the most districts. You can do the mayoral contests the same way by winning the most precincts. If that was the founders intent, then they would have done so. It has never came up as a problem in this country's history until we got a right wing extremist group and certain Democrats who also want individual power instead of serving the people.
The power belongs to the people and no one should accept otherwise because they work for us. We tell them what we agree to and if they don't, we have the right to forcibly, tar and feather them and run them out of office. The power of the Constitution comes from the people that agree to it. It does not come from any individual or small group of people. So tinkering with our rights to decide whom leads this country should not be tampered with ever. It does give us the right to have a Civil War if necessary. Two can play their dangerous games. See our past Civil War. The Supreme Court made interpretations then they people willfully turned a blind eye too. Their check on power grabbing is ultimately with the people that gave them the right to hold office over us.