[Marxism] (fwd) POTUS election: What if ... McCain gets elected and dies

[Les Schaffer]

[for Einde ]



Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> Bill O'Connor writes, "Half of the 50 states allow the electors to cast
> their votes as they please!" Well, yes, but to get elected as an elector,
> you have to be someone considered absolutely trustworthy by the party
> nominating you.
> That's on the one  hand.
> On the other, MOST of the states that "require" voting for "your" 
> candidate
> have absolutely no enforcement mechanism. A few stipulate punishments,
> ranging from a $500 fine to those assigned to a misdemeanor or a class 4
> felony, but AFAIK, they've yet to apply it to anyone. And only a couple
> declare "faithless" votes invalid and cause for replacing the elector.
>
> But that's the small stuff. The larger concern is that the Electoral 
> College
> setup nearly triples the weight of Alaskans, and makes addressing the
> concerns of metropolises with 20 times Alaska's entire population 
> irrelevant
> to winning the presidency.
>
> Then again, it is far preferable to what the system has been in most 
> Latin
> American countries in FACT, which is called "democraCIA" with the 
> emphasis
> on CIA. Or as President Bachelet explains, the reason the U.S. doesn't 
> have
> coups is that there's no American embassy in Washington. She forgot to 
> add,
> because they don't need one there. The coup is built into the process.
>
As I recall the electoral college system was introduced as safeguard 
against popular democracy.

Einde O'Callaghan