usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world · edit-212 hours agoWalz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1608arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1602arrow-down1external-linkWalz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’thehill.comusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world · edit-212 hours agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-23 hours agoThere’s still the electoral college which needs to go, creating a half-assed workaround which could easily be dissolved is not a fix. It’s nothing other than a spit and a handshake
minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoIt’s more than a “handshake”. States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there’s nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes Once it’s been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though
There’s still the electoral college which needs to go, creating a half-assed workaround which could easily be dissolved is not a fix. It’s nothing other than a spit and a handshake
It’s more than a “handshake”. States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there’s nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes
Once it’s been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though