An Alternative To The Elector College

Michael_Panetta said:
Each American should be allotted a number of votes depending on certain variables.

For example, the lower the tax bracket you fall into, the more votes you get, which would give the poor an edge against the wealthy, who have large amounts of money to influence elections.

If you're educated, you get another vote. Maybe +1 vote for a bachelor's degree and +2 for an advanced degree.
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Electoral college seems simpler and it doesn't seem like it needs to be changed. If a president can't campaign to appeal to a broad plurality of states and they only appeal to the metropolitan areas in the most populated states they shouldn't be the president of the country.
 
when brainstorming, it is important to remember that no idea is a dumb idea

But with that said, dumb people sometimes come up with ideas. That is what happened here
 
Michael_Panetta said:
Each American should be allotted a number of votes depending on certain variables.

For example, the lower the tax bracket you fall into, the more votes you get, which would give the poor an edge against the wealthy, who have large amounts of money to influence elections.

If you're educated, you get another vote. Maybe +1 vote for a bachelor's degree and +2 for an advanced degree.
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So poor people that don't pay the taxes that fund the handouts they get should get more votes to continue being leeches? Ridiculous.

How about poor people get off their asses and actually try to make something of themselves instead of constantly demanding they be given something someone else earned?
 
zymurgy said:
when brainstorming, it is important to remember that no idea is a dumb idea

But with that said, dumb people sometimes come up with ideas. That is what happened here
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I disagree. Allowing those that don't pay the taxes that fund the things they receive to have more voting power to maintain and/or extend that is a dumb idea.

What happened here is a dumb person came up with a dumb idea.
 
Arks&sparka said:
Electoral college seems simpler and it doesn't seem like it needs to be changed. If a president can't campaign to appeal to a broad plurality of states and they only appeal to the metropolitan areas in the most populated states they shouldn't be the president of the country.
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That's one of the main reasons the system was created. It meant the winner had to appeal to a wider area not just the highly populated areas.

The winner of California get 20% of the electoral votes needed to become President.
 
CFM said:
I disagree. Allowing those that don't pay the taxes that fund the things they receive to have more voting power to maintain and/or extend that is a dumb idea.

What happened here is a dumb person came up with a dumb idea.
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you got beat up frequently as a child, no?
 
CFM said:
That's one of the main reasons the system was created. It meant the winner had to appeal to a wider area not just the highly populated areas.

The winner of California get 20% of the electoral votes needed to become President.
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It's almost like it's a constitutional republic and not a democracy. It's almost like it was set up to be that.

Lol
 
Arks&sparka said:
It's almost like it's a constitutional republic and not a democracy. It's almost like it was set up to be that.

Lol
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Exactly. Those that continue to claim Hillary "won" the popular vote neither understand how the system works nor why it was put in place.
 
CFM said:
Exactly. Those that continue to claim Hillary "won" the popular vote neither understand how the system works nor why it was put in place.
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Winning the popular vote is like winning at the claw machine. Your prize isn't that great and it's probably something you could purchase cheaper than it cost you to operate the claw machine to win It, but you're going to brag about it and make a big deal about how significant it is.

I always thought that was a funny analogy.
 
Michael_Panetta said:
Each American should be allotted a number of votes depending on certain variables.
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To hell with everyone being equal under the law, right?

Michael_Panetta said:
For example, the lower the tax bracket you fall into, the more votes you get,
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... as long as you divide the number of votes allotted by the number of people in each tax bracket.

Michael_Panetta said:
... which would give the poor an edge against the wealthy, who have large amounts of money to influence elections.
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... and the reason successful people should be punished for being successful is ...?

Michael_Panetta said:
If you're educated, you get another vote.
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... you mean to say that additional votes are to be allotted if you have been indoctrinated into Leftist/Marxist ideology at a university of zero tolerance for intellectual diversity?


There's a word for your plan ... I forget what that word is exactly at the moment.
 
Michael_Panetta said:
Each American should be allotted a number of votes depending on certain variables.

For example, the lower the tax bracket you fall into, the more votes you get, which would give the poor an edge against the wealthy, who have large amounts of money to influence elections.

If you're educated, you get another vote. Maybe +1 vote for a bachelor's degree and +2 for an advanced degree.
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Many states, red and blue would like to move on towards splitting up the delegates by voting districts like Nebraska has boldly done. You win that disctrict you pick up those delegates.

There is a chance this time where, Donald Trump could become a victim of the College Delegate system.

It's like I always said, when the Republicans ever face winning the popular vote and losing to the winner-take-all Delegate system- THINGS WILL CHANGE OVERNIGHT! LOL!
 
Damocles said:
Imagine... We'd be held hostage by folks who drop out of school before they learn to read and have as many children as possible until their uterus falls out. They'd be poor, in poverty even...

I'm pretty sure that this path to socialism isn't going to fly in the United States.
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No. Under my system, those with both the least money and the highest education would have the most voting power.
 
Michael_Panetta said:
How am I "un-American"?
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simple. let me show you the basic steps of being American.

1. supporting the constitution of the united states
2. democrats don't believe in the constitution of the united states
3. republicans don't believe in the constitution of the united states
4. anyone who votes democrat or republican are voting against the constitution of the united states

see how simple that was?
 
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