11-09-2016, 10:09 AM
(11-09-2016, 09:55 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Exactly why the election process is flawed. How do you tell people every vote counts?
We have to keep in mind that the reason this system was put in place by the framers was because they didn't have faith in the population as a whole to do the right thing with an election. The general population was only intended to elect their state officials, their Representatives in the House, and electors to decide on the POTUS. Later on we made the Senate and POTUS elected by the people as things shifted.
We definitely need to rethink our electoral processes on a number of levels.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
