In the President/Vice President election in the USA.
It’s the 2024 election. 5 November. I’m registered to vote in Florida. The world is in a bombing, holocaustic mess, and neither presidential or vice presidential candidates expressed a plan to stop it or even to alter it. All they did was pick sides, except for Donald Trump, when asked to pick sides between Russia and Ukraine said, he just wanted to stop the war – but failed to give even a vague plan on how he might do that or what was necessary.
I’M NOT VOTING.
Why?
I don’t think any of the candidates will make good leaders in today’s world. Better to not include a disingenuous vote, than to cloud the populace vote count with a lie.
I wonder how many votes will be lies this time around, in this election? Probably more than anyone can imagine. If it’s a singular leader (as in president), I don’t want to vote for the party which is filled with unknown faces with unknown powers to adversely effect our lives when I don’t trust the candidates.
The behind the scenes people are dangerous when nobody knows who they are, or even what they really stand for, since they all lie. The lie is the way of the day, every day that you work in politics. If you don’t lie easily and with comfort, you’re not a good choice for governmental forces who want to control you, should they want the need, which they always do. They also don’t want candidates who have nothing to hide, because they’re more difficult to control using blackmail, a process in which all government agencies freely engage.
I also don’t support the electoral college.
I don’t support two senators from each state either. Maybe when the original states were a lot less densely populated, it made sense, but in today’s world with population explosions everywhere, it’s outdated and discriminatory.
The House of Representatives consists of 435 members, based on population. Since 1913.
I wonder if when each year population figures change based on increased or lowered population why the numbers of representatives in each state don’t?
The Senate consists of two members per state, regardless of population. California population 38.97 million (2023). Rhode Island population 1.096 million (2023), as examples.
On both counts, Senate and House, I see discrimination based on probable population changes.
“Who is in the Electoral College?
Each state gets as many electors as it has members of Congress (House and Senate). Including Washington, D.C.’s three electors, there are currently 538 electors in all.”
So, if the numbers of the House of Representatives based on population minus any updates or accommodations made for population changes since 1913, then basing the electoral college on those same numbers is also discriminatory. 435 + 100 + 3 = 538.
Regarding congress, why should Rhode Island be represented by two Senators and two House of Representatives, which translates to four electoral college votes, when California is represented by two senators and fifty-two representatives?
The Senate equation is highly discriminatory, since the population rates vary widely among states.
The House is less discriminatory being based more on actual population. The calculations based on changes in population numbers haven’t changed since 1913 by law.
It seems that by law, the 435 number cannot change, so all that can change is the distribution among states, and this is where much of the current controversy surrounding the electoral college emanates, focusing on districts within states and blurring those lines artificially, by redistricting, which apparently is lawful. It seems to many that the redistricting itself has become discriminatory.
Some say that the more accurate numbers of the House counterbalance the more discriminatory numbers of the Senate. But, the House votes mainly on state affairs at a federal level and the Senate is about federal affairs at the federal level.
House of Representatives at the State level is not the same as the House of Representatives at the Federal level. Each state has its own capitol and congress of Senators and Representatives.
For instance:
There are 8 state senators in Ohio representing 8 districts.
There are 99 house of representatives in Ohio representing 99 districts.
So what say you, Sharon?
Get rid of the Electoral College, which will make every single vote in America equally powerful, no matter the state or district in which you live.
Even the score with Federal senators, according to population, instead of two per state no matter the population.
Stop redistricting to manipulate votes thus power.
If this confuses you, so does it everybody else – even those who should know.
Why when I first registered to vote in my teens and said I was a democrat, was that made permanent? I’m 75 years old in 2024 and I still can’t vote in a Republican primary.
Why do I have to be on a democratic voting list? If I decide I want to vote republican, and I go to the republican primary, I’m not on the list, so I can’t vote?
Fix it!
Ever wonder why we see so much hatred coming from the democrats and hardly any from the republicans – excluding politicians? It comes mostly from recent immigrants. That’s discriminatory too. It sounds like ‘hate’ gets a greater voice, because it’s communicated the loudest.
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