#Electoral

🇺🇸🗽S-Man Speaks🗽🇺🇸

I was bored, and decided to see what the last election would look like if we all saw the electoral votes allocated based on the state's popular vote, not a

My hot historical take is that the truly dangerous electoral "road map" is not Trump's from 2020. It's Madison's from 1787.The Electoral College is a more inevitable danger to democracy.

b-boy bouiebaisse

more people should know that in 1970 Congress came within a few votes of amending the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College you can read @jessewegman’s excellent book on the

Misión de Transparencia Electoral destaca la implementación de medidas de bioseguridad en proceso electoralA thread https://prensa.ec/2021/04/12/mision-de-transparencia-electoral-destaca-la-implementacion-de-medidas-de-bioseguridad-en-pr

The Electoral College isn't going to be eliminated. It only takes 13 states to block an amendment and there are more than 13 states that benefit from the Electoral College.However,

Ultra Leftists and Anarchists will be gloating today to show this as proof you shouldn't participate in electoral politics at all. They're idiots and they have absolutely no plan or

A reminder that people not voting like you isn't evidence of voting fraud.Just because you believe strongly that a thing is right, doesn't mean everyone else does.Applies to Twitch polls

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

In light of Nate Silver's viral tweet, here's a reminder that the electoral college has created a significant probability of minority rule for its entire history.https://slate.com/business/2019/09/electoral-college-republican-advant

Jonathan Wilson

I don't know who needs to hear this, but no argument in favor of the electoral college today has any relationship to the reasons the electoral college was written into

Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈

Landslide folks. Not 300 electoral votes or event 320. We want a 20 point national lead and 400 electoral votes in November. Trump must be sent away in a historic

If the Electoral College is a product of the democratic process (one that was widely accepted until recently), the democratic process is the one thing that can undo it. So

A reminder that electoral fraud is a tiny problem. There were only 164 cases of any kind at the 2019 general election. Across all elections in 2019 the police found

Black Socialists in America

BlackSocialists

Far too many are still in denial about the fact that this game of “choose your leader (but not really)” that electoral politics limits us to isn’t going to cut

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

“The DSA announced that they will not endorse Biden to make Biden supporters feel bad” is a sign that I need to sign off and maybe lose some followers. If

Strom Thurmond's goal in 1948 was not to win the presidency outright -- he wasn't on many ballots, and he knew he wouldn't play in the North. It was to

Matthew Chapman

The true evil of the Electoral College is that makes the vast majority of people's vote not matter, and by extension it makes their lives not matter to politicians.Trump has