Re: OT: We the people?

J. Clarke wrote:

Just Wondering wrote:

Gerald Ross wrote:

Just Wondering wrote:


Garage_Woodworks wrote:


How is this "We the people ..."? I never got a chance to vote for
who I wanted for president because he dropped out recently.


You can still vote for him. Ever hear of a write-in candidate?
There have even been times (not often, to be sure) when a write-in
candidate won an election.


I don't know other state's laws, but here you have to be a registered
write-in candidate, otherwise the vote is just thrown out. People
write in Mickey Mouse, Pluto and whatever strikes their fancy. They
not only lose that vote, but it is not tallied and no one even gets
to laugh about it (other than the poll workers).


Well, when it comes to that, "We the people" never did mean that it
was the voters who decided who wanted to run for office.


The original plan was that the people would vote for electors (the elector's name would be the one on the ballot) and the electors would then meet and decide who among the whole population of the US should be President,

So far so good.

and if he didn't want the job draft him anyway.

Well, now, pardner, I reckon I have to call you out on that one. How about a reference supporting that statement? 'Cause that's the first I ever heard that one.

It didn't work out that way. Personally I think we should try it. Along with a rule that anybody who declares himsef a candidate for President is automatically disqualified.

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