We
Want Our Votes Back!
Several states, with
Maryland at the forefront,
are enacting legislation
that awards all of the state's electoral votes to the
winner of the popular vote in presidential elections.
The practical upshot of this idea is that it will make
the electoral college obsolete because if enough states
sign up the election would automatically be awarded
to the candidate who wins the most votes not the most
electoral votes.
Crazy,
huh?
Yes, red state party machines
will continue to try and hinder the vote among progressives
but the effect will be muted as they'd have to implement
the process nationwide. (Hillary Clinton lost lost
Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Arizona to just such
conservative voter suppression.)
This also means that if you're a Blue in a Red state
YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT AGAIN. So share this idea with
your friends and let's drive the process forward.
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One more thing... after Tuesday's
election catastrophe I felt that any further attempts
on my part to raise
social consciousness would be a waste of my precious
time on this good earth. That,
by all evidence, the great proportion of citizens of
this great republic have
completely lost the ability to reason. To these people
my cartoons are as indecipherable as Egyptian hieroglyphs
would be to a stegosaurus, and that saddens me.
But, after a few days contemplation, I've decided that
I will continue in my liberal labors.
No one should give up and, to those demonstrating in
our streets in protest of this mockery of a president,
much power to you! You are the true patriots.
=Lefty=
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