According to the voting reform group FairVote, there have been 157 faithless electors in American history (electors who do not vote for the candidate that got the popular vote). About 45 percent of those electoral votes were changed because the candidate died before the Electoral College voters were tallied.
So.. these guys are there to protect the people from electing criminals, voter fraud etc.. but who protects them? Am I reading this right? 45% died between the popular election end and the electorate votes were cast in December?
Probably. I'm too lazy atm to look it up:/... imo Everyone's vote should count the same regardless of education and where they live. Whoever has the most votes like 10M to 9.99M wins. It just shows how flawed this system is and it's really inhuman to say someone could move to a different state and their vote would be counted more just because of where they relocated. I'm not an employee of the government so my ideas will have less of an impact unfortunately<==Truth. I don't type shit that I think the majority will accept. I type shit what I feel like typing and understand that my ideas and opinions and beliefs will be forever criticized by potentially anyone that reads them. I do care about what people say about my opinions but I'm not going to go off the deep end and try to attack them simply because they attacked me first.
Basically America is f***** ether way. Time to book my ONE way ticket to Iceland (RIP Bobby Fischer).
gg my man with the best plan!
@chessanalyst Why did Bobby Fischer end up living in Iceland?
Well, iirc, he was a convicted of a criminal act and thus was unable to enter the U.S for years (by violating U.S policy by playing in a match against Boris Spasky in .... I don't remember where exactly), later his U.S citizenship and passport were revoked (possibly because of the above) but also possibly because of the anti-U.S, conspiracy and anti-semantic rhetoric he was spouting. After being arrested in Japan he filed for Icelandic citizenship seeking Asylum and was successful.
Bobby Fischer made some bad life decisions. Being good in chess does not mean having common sense for knowing what not to say in Radio, avoiding going to war zones, not doing financial transaction with enemy without permission of his own government.
Americans!!!
Donald Trump is the best you got?
nope, the best man for the job doesn't have money to run for president.
@Kitty-Meow Donald Trump is the president like it or not. It has made official now.
