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Manish Vij<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> all forms of power theft</p>
Dave Volek<p>Abolishing the Electoral College</p><p>This popular suggestion to improve democracy will not work. It is a distraction to prevent us from seeing what is really wrong with democracy. </p><p><a href="https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tiereddemocraticgovernance.org</span><span class="invisible">/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tiereddemocraticgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiereddemocraticgovernance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electoralcollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electoralcollege</span></a></p>
zeldman<p>The First Step to Fixing the Electoral College | Robert Reich 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZyFmILb5wArthur" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZy...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ElectoralCollege" target="_blank">#ElectoralCollege</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23democracy" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23vote" target="_blank">#vote</a><br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZyFmILb5wArthur" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The First Step to Fixing the E...</a></p>
wdhughes.bsky.social<p>The Democratic Party saw the result of the 1992 election where <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Clinton" target="_blank">#Clinton</a> won the <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ElectoralCollege" target="_blank">#ElectoralCollege</a> 370 to 198 with 43% of the popular vote &amp; took the lesson from that to move away from workers &amp; toward corporations.</p>
Dr. James Howard of Howard<p>The Electoral College was crafted to limit democracy, protect slaveholding power, and insulate elites from voters. In my latest post, I unpack how it came to be, what the framers feared, and why its logic never really made sense for a free society. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConstitutionalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a></p><p>📚 Read now: <a href="https://jameshoward.us/2025/05/26/the-electoral-college-was-designed-to-disenfranchise" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jameshoward.us/2025/05/26/the-</span><span class="invisible">electoral-college-was-designed-to-disenfranchise</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>Trump continues taking bribes while destroying the federal government; which includes denying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEMA</span></a> funding to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> states that sold their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> votes to him. </p><p>A̶r̶k̶a̶n̶s̶a̶s̶ 6 ECV (reverted)<br>W̶e̶s̶t̶ V̶i̶r̶g̶i̶n̶i̶a̶ 4 <br>N̶o̶r̶t̶h̶ C̶a̶r̶o̶l̶i̶n̶a̶ 16 <br>Iowa 6<br>Kansas 6<br>Missouri 10<br>Mississippi 6<br>Nebraska 5<br>Oklahoma 7<br>Texas 40</p><p>Stein says FEMA denial of full funding will mean less money for recovery needs | WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News Source - <a href="https://www.wfae.org/2025-05-23/stein-says-fema-denial-of-full-funding-will-mean-less-money-for-recovery-needs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wfae.org/2025-05-23/stein-says</span><span class="invisible">-fema-denial-of-full-funding-will-mean-less-money-for-recovery-needs</span></a></p>
Dave Volek<p>Abolishing the Electoral College</p><p>The EC had an important part of the early history of the USA. This nation would be much smaller without it. </p><p>Maybe the EC has become obsolete. Advocates claim it will improve American democracy. </p><p>I say: "Not likely." </p><p>Such discussion is a smokescreen for what ails American democracy. </p><p><a href="https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tiereddemocraticgovernance.org</span><span class="invisible">/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tiereddemocraticgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiereddemocraticgovernance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electoralcollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electoralcollege</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>States are artificial sops for colony founders. Delete the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a>, now WY and MI don’t count more than an Angeleno.</p>
Manish Vij<p>The “check” was to ensure northern states couldn’t ban armed slave catchers.</p><p>Same with non-proportional <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a> being “unamendable,” and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> letting slavers vote their slave populations.</p>
Ken M Sweeney<p>Electoral Reform</p><p>Problems: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gerrymandering</span></a>, voter suppression, and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> distort representation.</p><p>Reform Focus: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Proportionalrepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Proportionalrepresentation</span></a>, ranked-choice voting, independent redistricting commissions, and abolishing or reforming the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollegee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollegee</span></a>. 3)</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Paul_stilgar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Paul_stilgar</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>knittingknots2</span></a></span> Don’t forget the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a>. 😂</p>
Rasta<p>During Slavery, the North had more voters than the South. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/USPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPoli</span></a> </p><p>Bayeza abafana bancane wema <br>Bayeza abafana bancane wema<br>Baphethe iqwasha, baphethe ibazooka ♪<br>Bathi "Sangena savuma thina ♪<br>Lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu<br>Nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti." ♪</p><p>( <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Zulu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zulu</span></a> The young men are coming and standing ) <br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/OneManOneVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneManOneVote</span></a></p><p>♫ One (Hu)Man One Vote♫<br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/NSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSR</span></a> Johnny Clegg &amp; Savuka (LIVE) <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeR_DgPJRrI&amp;t=36s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=JeR_DgPJRr</span><span class="invisible">I&amp;t=36s</span></a></p>
Silkester<p>340 Mio people in the US<br>245 Mio eligible to Vote<br>155 Mio people voted in 2024<br>_77 Mio voted for Trump</p><p>Of these 77 Mio people many have serious buyers remorse, Some polls claim 60% were ok Trump policies pre Trump tariffs.</p><p>46 Mio MAGA people <br>My guess is this number is down to somewhere 20-30 Mio hard core MAGA.</p><p>Trump support is somewhere between 6 and 16% of the US population.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGpG2KHyknM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=fGpG2KHyknM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VotingMath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingMath</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Voting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MinorityRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MinorityRule</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electoralCollege</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
Dave Volek<p>Abolishing the Electoral College</p><p>A popular improvement for American democracy is replacing the electoral college with popular vote. Unfortunately, this won't solve what ails American democracy: </p><p><a href="https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tiereddemocraticgovernance.org</span><span class="invisible">/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tiereddemocraticgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiereddemocraticgovernance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electoralcollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electoralcollege</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p>And that's only the textualist way.</p><p>This <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> is the most judicially activist SCOTUS in history, and it will most likely find a creative activist way to do this, e.g. that the 22nd Amendment holds, but that neither the states nor any person has standing to bring the matter up in court; but that only Congress could do this when the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> votes are counted.</p><p>The same way that the prohibition on insurrectionists was neutered.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ConstitutionalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PresidentVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentVance</span></a></p>
AccordionBruce<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kelvin0mql" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kelvin0mql</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Strandjunker</span></a></span> <br>As <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GaslitNation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GaslitNation</span></a></span> just shared, He just took over the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalArchives</span></a> which controls the mechanics of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> and Constitutional amendments </p><p>So a third term is just a technicality away</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakedown</span></a> must have a follow-up target 🎯</p>
Father Enoch<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tusk81" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tusk81</span></a></span> </p><p>Sounds like a good reason to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/REMOVE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>REMOVE</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a>. </p><p>By whatever means they can...</p>
Dave Volek<p>Abolishing the Electoral Collage</p><p>This is a distraction for fixing American democracy:</p><p><a href="https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tiereddemocraticgovernance.org</span><span class="invisible">/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&amp;id=101</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tiereddemocraticgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiereddemocraticgovernance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electoralcollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electoralcollege</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>GOP termites have turned <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>constitution</span></a>’s safeguards like <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> and impeachment threshold against itself, much like using “1st Am for corpos” to quash it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/musks-rampage-through-government-shows-us-how-we-can-finally-close-the-book-on-what-trumpism-is-all-about" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/feb/18/musks-rampage-through-government-shows-us-how-we-can-finally-close-the-book-on-what-trumpism-is-all-about</span></a></p>
Fierce_Millennial<p>If you could change one law, what would it be? For me, it’s the Electoral College. It’s outdated, undemocratic, and needs to GO. Let’s make every vote count! What’s your pick? Drop it in the comments. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChangeTheLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeTheLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralCollege</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FierceImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FierceImpact</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FierceMillennial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FierceMillennial</span></a></p><p><a href="http://fiercemillennial.co/2025/02/15/scrap-the-electoral-college-let-the-people-decide/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">fiercemillennial.co/2025/02/15</span><span class="invisible">/scrap-the-electoral-college-let-the-people-decide/</span></a></p>