Why the Electoral College?

**Flash** · 10-20-2018, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by AssHatZombie

Yeah. Seems weird.

Is Heller that blind girl?

What provision of the Constitution does the electoral college violate? Are any other parts unconstitutional?

**Nordberg** · 10-21-2018, 01:37 PM

The electoral college was about the ability to count slaves in determining how many seats they would get. That is to placate slave states, who had much larger populations, but far fewer eligible voters, Slaves were not permitted to vote. But slave states wanted to count slaves in rewarding the number of seats each state would get in congress. The 3/th compromise allowed them to count 3 for every 5 slaves, but only in seats. Slaves could not vote. So that made every vote in a slave state worth more than a vote in another state. That is fundmentally uncostitutional. The electoral college should not have been allowed.

**Nordberg** · 10-21-2018, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet

no, you simple minded dick.....the big states included Virginia which was a slave state and the small states included Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine which were not......repeating idiotic lib'rul memes doesn't make you look LESS stupid.......

Dumb shit, slave states had larger popultions if they counted slaves. Not if they could not. The slave states had smaller amounts of ELIGIBLE voters. Therefore they wrung out the 3/5ths compromise.

**Blackwater Lunchbreak** · 10-21-2018, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Flash

What provision of the Constitution does the electoral college violate? Are any other parts unconstitutional?

None and none

**Flash** · 10-21-2018, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by AssHatZombie

None and none

So this was not a serious statement? "Sure the electoral college is unconstitutional." [AssHat].

**Nordberg** · 10-21-2018, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Flash

So this was not a serious statement? "Sure the electoral college is unconstitutional." [AssHat].

If you believe in one man = one vote, it is unconstitutional. The slave states voters got an unfair amount of power in their votes.

**Flash** · 10-21-2018, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Nordberg

If you believe in one man = one vote, it is unconstitutional. The slave states voters got an unfair amount of power in their votes.

There is nothing about one man=one vote in the Constitution. The electoral college is in the constitution so by definition it cannot be unconstitutional.

The slave states got less power because only 3/5 of slaves were counted for representation as opposed to all the slaves; therefore, the House had fewer southern representatives because of the the 3/5 compromise.

**Nordberg** · 10-21-2018, 03:34 PM

Obviously, since slaves could not vote and neither could many of the people vote due to requirements, the constitution did not push one man one vote. However is that a principle the US was supposed to be founded on. When blacks were permitted to vote, that was the argument. The Supreme Court has used "one man ,one vote" as a reason for decisions several times.The Supremes apparently see it as a founding principle.

**Frank Apisa** · 10-21-2018, 03:51 PM

The Electoral College as now constituted...is an abomination to the notion of one person/one vote. The EC absurdly favors the Republican Party.

Unfortunately, there is no way it is going to be changed.

Live with it. It is here to stay.

**PostmodernProphet** · 10-21-2018, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by Nordberg

Dumb shit, slave states had larger popultions if they counted slaves. Not if they could not. The slave states had smaller amounts of ELIGIBLE voters. Therefore they wrung out the 3/5ths compromise.

stick your failed memes up your ass and stop posting till you get an education.....I'm through with you.....post more crap and I will go back to fixing the mistakes in you posts....

**Nordberg** · 10-21-2018, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet

stick your failed memes up your ass and stop posting till you get an education.....I'm through with you.....post more crap and I will go back to fixing the mistakes in you posts....

Wow, your immaturity and stupidity arise again. Bigoted, rude and stupid is no way to go through life. I enjoy giving you the facts though. They don't sink in, but maybe someday you can understand what a joke you are. Right down there with Vileherb and Evmerto.

**Lightbringer** · 10-21-2018, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Frank Apisa

The Electoral College as now constituted...is an abomination to the notion of one person/one vote. The EC absurdly favors the Republican Party.

Unfortunately, there is no way it is going to be changed.

Live with it. It is here to stay.

It's supposed to be.

**PostmodernProphet** · 10-21-2018, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Nordberg

Bigoted, rude and stupid is no way to go through life but I enjoy it.

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**Nordberg** · 10-21-2018, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet

stick your failed memes up your ass and stop posting till you get an education.....I'm through with you.....post more crap and I will go back to fixing the mistakes in you posts....

Educating an idiot like you is becoming a job. One of dumbest here. Vileherb should be helping you.