Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 21
st, 2017 at 3:52pm:
Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 21
st, 2017 at 2:15pm:
longweekend58 wrote on Jan 21
st, 2017 at 2:06pm:
no they didnt. Even with voluntary voting, Clinton got a big majority of the votes. And if you included all the lazy people who didnt vote, Trump woudlnt have even gotten close.
So do you think the US should have "First Past the Post" voting?
longy, would you prefer the Electoral College be scrapped and just the "popular" vote retained? That's the only way Clinton could have won
If the US changed to First Past the Post voting, would you be happy with that? There's no chance of it happening but there's nothing stopping you from suggesting it as a viable alternative ... but you'd have to convince 50 States, the States take precedence over the Fed, you wouldn't think it these days, but they do indeed. There's no chance of compulsory voting either
So what do you think about the voting system in the US? it stinks in your opinion and needs changing, or is it Ok? How would you ensure candidates who get the most "popular" votes, can win ?
A) the US already has first-past the post voting.
B) when you ask the entire country to vote for just two positions Pres and VP, it doesnt seem to make sense to use a college system
and yes, the US electoral system is an abomination which is so fragmented and so open to abuse that it is a disaster. what did you think of North Carolina which passed a voter ID law specifically designed to disenfranchise blacks and student. They literally researched ID mainly used by these groups and then banned them. You think that this is even remotely fair? Or how about the recent election where a Democrat won the governors mansion and the REpublican congress literally voted to strip the governor of most of his powers.
THIS is the USA electoral system
This is the system where elections are run by local committees comprised of members of political parties which can and have, literally banned people from auditing the votes.
REmember 2000? the supreme court with a majority of republican appointees voted to HALT A RECOUNT because GWB was in front.
so does it stink? I can think of some third-world cesspools with a more open and less corrupt system. Did Trump ACTUALLY win? We will never know since recounts have to be paid for by individuals and even then, can be stopped by judges who owe allegiance to politics above democracy.
STINKS AND THEN SOME
So not about compulsory voting then.