12-26-2016, 08:54 AM
(12-25-2016, 11:06 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Thanks..... still seems odd to me.
Electors were intended to cast the vote for POTUS. Their job was to be knowledgeable about the candidates in a time when the normal citizenry would have no clue who these people were. A former POTUS would be a political insider that would know about the candidates and so, in reality, would make abgood elector. It is up the people to then elect the electors. The way the system was intended, it would be up to the people to decide whether they want that particular elector casting their vote.
This is my issue with the system, it's like Frankenstein's monster with different parts that don't seem to match.
"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
