I understand the push to elect Presidents through the popular vote. I disagree with it, but I understand why they want this. (Actually small states lose out, October 3)
I find it noteworthy that they are not attempting to reform
the system through a Constitutional Amendment.
That would show whether the country as a whole was in favor of the
idea.
There is, however, one fatal flaw in their plan. Fatal in the sense that they are willing to
break the core principles of democracy in order to save it, or, to get what
they want.
Under our current electoral system, voters essentially are
voting for electors, not the President himself.
These electors have all agreed to vote for a particular candidate if he
wins.
Under this new proposal, if the voters of a state chose the
candidate with fewer overall votes than the other candidate, the state would
then nullify all their votes and accept all the electors of the losing
candidate.
I’m sorry, but that is simply wrong.
UNLESS
Every election, on that same ballot, you will need to ask
the voters if they will agree to that.
Then you have that right. But to
get so many states to agree to this, and then allow this system to perpetuate
forever is absurd and contrary to every principle of democracy they claim to
uphold.