Comments on: 12/05/14 – Nadar Vote

By: llirium

llirium — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 21:50:06 +0000

@Pete So far as I know, there haven’t been any civil wars in Canada, we don’t have an electoral college. But yeah, so long as insecure electronic voting systems exist and boxes can be stolen or “lost”, nothing’s 100%.

By: db

db — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:58:25 +0000

One person, one vote. That sounds like Democracy.
We should try that someday.

By: Pete Rogan

Pete Rogan — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:41:39 +0000

Eliminating the Electoral College would open up such breathtaking fraud and out-and-out poll violence that you would not believe it. Take it from me. Or don’t; there’s a movement to make Electoral College votes reflect the votes of the Congressional districts per state, districts already gerrymandered to provide secure, reliable right-wing results for decades to come. So the Electoral College will be overturned de facto. The rest of democracy will follow in good time. After all, who said you had to vote at all?

By: Royal

Royal — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:41:18 +0000

This exact argument is still being made, 15 years later, and it’s still not a good motivator for the vote.

Of course, in hindsight, Bush did up getting the presidency, but more because of fraud and voter theft than actually winning Florida.