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Tim Walz calls for scrapping of electoral college to decide US presidential race (www.theguardian.com)

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Kamala Harris’s running mate urges popular vote system but campaign says issue is not part of Democrats’ agenda

Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has called for the electoral college system of electing US presidents to be abolished and replaced with a popular vote principle, as operates in most democracies.

His comments – to an audience of party fundraisers – chime with the sentiments of a majority of American voters but risk destabilising the campaign of Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, who has not adopted a position on the matter, despite having previously voiced similar views.

"I think all of us know, the electoral college needs to go," Walz told donors at a gathering at the home of the California governor, Gavin Newsom. "We need a national popular vote. We need to be able to go into York, Pennsylvania, and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nevada, and win."

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which was the point of the EC in the first place:

There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0065

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes

Could you explain this sentence please? English isn't my first language and I can't make sense of it.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Southern states owned a lot of slaves, and thought the slave owners should get to have the slave's votes in addition to their own. They thought that if they couldn't do that, the South couldn't have a loud enough voice in the election.

It's kind of related to the 3/5th compromise.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks !

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

White slave owners in the south didn't want abolitionists to vote away their supremacy over blacks, and thought the EC would be a good way to make sure the abolitionist voting bloc would be kept in check.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History is riddled with the results of people on the right side giving so much to the losers that the losers win in the long run.

They were monsters that treated humans like property.. fuuuuuuuuck them so hard.

And here we are, back again cuz someone didn't smack them hard enough

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Now we're all still property, but must find a way to feed, clothe, home ourselves and get to our mostly underpaid jobs. It's fine if it's extralegal, until we're caught or turned in.

[–] Otkaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Madison was saying that blacks in the south were enslaved and couldn't vote. They made up a significant portion of the southern states population which put them at a disadvantage giving them poor representation.