Quote Originally Posted by flyingimam
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Electoral college by itself aint that bad of a thing. What really is bad about it is that the people in there who cast their vote are NOT "obligated" nor "required" to follow their's state's popular vote outcome.

example: State X can pick candidate A after all votes have been counted and if the their delegate wishes, they can vote candidate B without having to conform to their constituents vote. This is exactly what my government course professor said, although I personally know of no such occurrence in the past and have no confirmed it independently, but since this guy was a political science guru, i wouldnt think he is wrong

EDIT: wait, i found it
Electoral College (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

despite all the hate and criticism, u gotta love this wikipedia, does a fairly good job and speeds things up:thumbsup:
You are right, I understand what you are saying that the electoral college could vote for whomever they want to period.
But the tradition is to vote for whom your constituents voted for. There have been instances where that has happened, but that is political suicide, and those electors do get held accountable.
The biggest problem, is that we do not even have a majority of eligible voters voting. :wtf:
I am not really talking about the big national elections, but really about your local elections. It counts! Far too many just don't believe in it, or are apathetic. I think that we are getting exactly what we put into it, "our current government".
Shit shit shit shitty shit shit, on a shit stick.
But that issue, is not because of our "process of government", which as I said previously, is the best. IMHHO.:jointsmile:

Totally unrelated, I had an inspiring idea, somewhere, members here should make a pact to run for local city office, (or state or whatever you want I guess), can you imagine, in a few years, literally there could be any number of cannabis.com members, holding political seats everywhere. Now would be the time to start planning for the next elections. People are always asking what they can do for cannabis etc, well, you could go into the belly of the beast directly, you may or may not ever move the cannabis agenda forward, but you never know. You may do a whole lot of good in many other areas.
Waddya think?