Is the swingman retiring?

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(03-12-2018, 10:37 AM)michaelsean Wrote: The wording is still in there due to the unique way the constitution is amended, but it's no longer in effect.  

I'm not sure what you mean in your second sentence.  Original intent includes any amendments.

The Electoral College as it functions today does not model the original intent of it. States have slowly changed the process outside of the Amendment process. It used to be a system where you voted just for electors, not candidates or tickets. I wouldn't vote for "John Adams", I voted for "Isaac Philip Freely" who was a known Federalist in my area because I trusted him to pick the right guy and not some Democratic Republican scoundrel. 

But even by our 3rd election, there were at least 5 different ways electors were appointed by the state. Some states stuck to this original system, some picked the electors via their legislature, some had local jurisdictions picked them. 

Whether or not we agree with not using a popular vote, we can all at least agree that states moving to a nearly identical process in which electors are more ceremonial and our votes matter in our state is better than the original way it was intended to function. 


There's also arguments over whose original intent we use. The FF's disagreed a lot.