You can not totally eliminate the electoral college. That requires a constitutional convention, very difficult to do that. You can have the electoral college members be figure heads . The popular vote determines the elections and reflects the electoral percentage. This would be achieved by individual states voting on this , an interstate compact national popular vote. https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
On Thursday, October 3, 2024, Marv Gandall via groups.io <marvgand2= gmail....@groups.io> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 10:45 AM, Charlie wrote: > > Abortion rights directly matter to a great part of the population. Women's > right to vote was a step along the way to social and economic equality, > too. The "powerful democratic demand" that Gandall sees in abolition of the > electoral college has no such impact or attraction. > > I wouldn't counterpose abortion rights to majority voting rights - they > are both essential democratic demands - but I appreciate the pitfalls > pointed to by David W. and Steven R. I'm much less familiar than they > about the intricacies of the US political system, and was more posing a > question about the feasibility of organizing around the National Popular > Vote Interstate Compact than providing an answer. > > But I will go out on a limb to say that this demand, despite its > shortcomings, would still resonate more with US working people than the > advice dispensed by Charlie to Marxists who are active in the unions and > allied movements to "agitate for working-class power, socialist > revolution, and as a corollary, no presidential vote this year." > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32697): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32697 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108801645/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
