i suppose at that point the Supreme Court would have every justification to hear the case....
moondog Send a noteboard - 06/11/2012 06:07:06 PM
And even if not for the above scenario: if there's a nation-wide vote and it's close enough nation-wide for a recount, how on earth can you justify the arbitrary decision of recounting only those states in which the vote happened to be very close too? Since it wouldn't matter one bit in which state a vote was cast, why then should e.g. Ohio and Florida votes be recounted but no others? There would no longer be any reason to argue that a small counting error in those very close states would have a larger effect on the election than an equally small counting error in a state with a totally lopsided result.
...unlike the last time they stepped in. also every state provides for how to request a recount if the vote total allows for it, but i'm sure new laws would be designed for a situation like the 2000 election. i suppose paying for it would have to fall to the federal government in such a scenario, since a state like CA or TX is not likely to have a margin of victory small enough to trigger an automatic recount and also would not have the will to do such a recount without adequate compensation for the man-hours it would require.
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Could Ohio Kill the Electoral College?
- 05/11/2012 04:43:48 PM
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Well, let's hope Romney takes Pennsylvania, too, so we don't have to worry about this. *NM*
- 05/11/2012 05:46:22 PM
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I do not think even the GOPs massive PA vote suppression effort is enough to accomplish that.
- 05/11/2012 06:38:05 PM
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It's not impossible. I roughly reversed engineered Silver's tipping point simulation...
- 05/11/2012 11:06:16 PM
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what? directly vote for president? COMMUNISM!
- 05/11/2012 06:01:00 PM
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Seems like everything is communism these days, even/especially things that are not.
- 05/11/2012 06:56:55 PM
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A simple solution: proportional allocation of electors from each state with 15 votes or more.
- 05/11/2012 08:34:08 PM
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I prefer 1 EV per house district, with 2 EVs going to state winners
- 05/11/2012 08:40:50 PM
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it would certainly make the races more interesting.....
- 05/11/2012 09:09:24 PM
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If not for gerrymandering I would consider this the ideal solution.
- 05/11/2012 09:26:01 PM
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But in that system, the small states would be bypassed completely
- 05/11/2012 09:55:49 PM
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You mean even more than they already are (outside of the NH primaries)?
- 05/11/2012 11:17:14 PM
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Me too actually, but only with computerized semi-random redistricting *NM*
- 06/11/2012 05:38:25 AM
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why would there need to be a nation-wide recount? don't the states keep their own tallies?
- 05/11/2012 09:08:04 PM
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What if none of the states were close enough for a recount, but the country as a whole was?
- 05/11/2012 09:23:33 PM
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i suppose at that point the Supreme Court would have every justification to hear the case....
- 06/11/2012 06:07:06 PM
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What Legolas said; if we did it by national popular vote, recounts would need to be national.
- 05/11/2012 09:34:30 PM
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I like that idea, though I have long felt Larrys idea of using Congressional Districts is better.
- 05/11/2012 09:22:49 PM
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