Bill's Comments

For almost as long as I can remember there have been arguments against the electoral college, which gives the smaller states a more than proportional say in our national election for President. There is a reason for that. The Founding Fathers realized that straight majorities can be tyrannical, and they were right, as witness the passage of Obamacare.

Now we find out that Massachusetts is following the lead of five other states and determining that the votes of its electors must be cast for the candidate with the greatest popular vote, not the candidate the people of Massachusetts voted for, and certainly not the candidate the elector would consider the best candidate.

The reasons for the electoral college are now lost to most people because of the failure to properly teach history and civics. Students are no longer taught what the Constitution says and why. The reasons given for promoting this change are disingenuous at the least and most likely an outright lie.

Supporters of the change say that the current Electoral College system is confusing and causes candidates to focus unduly on a handful of battleground states.

The dynamics of pure majority rule mean that candidates will only focus on a few large, safe states, knowing that they will control the vote. What will happen is that we will become a permanently blue-state country, as the total votes of the red states will never equal those of the blue, whereas their total electoral votes would.

This is a profoundly fundamental change to our entire electoral process and needs to be stopped.