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Because Georgia, like all but 2 states, has as state law that all electoral votes be assigned to the person with the most votes in the state. Elections would look very different imo if EVs were split proportionately.
If some people were only pretending to be "electors" or, much the same, been tricked into acting or appearing to act as "electors", have the real electors come forward yet and if not why not?
1 - Why doesn't Georgia's law get declared unconstitutional?
The founder's didn't trust the people to choose the chief executive. They were afraid that a strong regional movement could result in the election of a corrupt demagogue. So they came up with the electoral college. Each state was given a number of electors equal to their congressional delegation. Since it's one body unlike Congress, this tended to benefit larger states actually. And the electors were forbidden from holding any other political office. They were envisioned as mostly being a bunch of elder statesmen. This elite, discerning body, was meant to ensure that the best man was chosen for the job, and the nature of the college required a broad geographical support.
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It is also because of the 3/5ths compromise. Because Black slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person but couldn't vote, they also needed a way to inflate the vote count of states with slaves. The Electoral College was devised so that every vote would get 1 vote for president for each Senator (of which every state has two) and for each representative (with the number determined by the state's population). So the Electoral College granted a way to "adjust" the Presidential vote to account for the number of Black slaves so the Southern states ended up with roughly equal power in Presidential elections to the Northern states.
It's so dumb. I can appreciate the desire to not want big urban areas dominating the political discourse, but the amount of pandering directed towards Iowa and New Hampshire is objectively worse. At least when you're pandering to big cities, you're pandering to a lot of people, not corn fields and mountains. A nationwide, ranked choice popular vote would make everybody happier, except for some of the entrenched partisan interests.
Agree. Why would rural voters deserve a handicap? It's grossly unfair to think that your vote should have more weight because you live in
Your plan will entrench the only two permitted parties / candidates which is what the problem is already surely. Primaries are a bad idea. Party officials should carry the can.
How far in advance of an election are electors appointed? Or is it after the election?
After the election. I think there are nuances for each state, but generally speaking each candidate puts forth a slate of electors and after the election the state appoints those electors who then make the formal vote for President.
Ah that "sort of" "partly" "explains" it. Sounds like the sort of thing the characters in (the excellent) Mark Twain would invent!
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