Group Pushes Kerry-Nader Vote Swap

[Ozoned]

For clarification, has the EC every favored the democratic party?

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Ozoned
For clarification, has the EC every favored the democratic party?

Nope. There's been three cases besides 2000 when the winner of the popular vote was not the winner of the electoral vote: 1824, 1876, 1888

In 1824, everyone was from the same party. In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes (R) beat Samuel Jones Tilden (D). In 1888, Benjamin Harrison (R) beat Grover Cleveland (D).

Though you can definitely argue that the face of the parties have changed a lot since then so you could hardly call this a trend. In those days, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and the Democrats had lots of support from the south.

 

[CycloWizard]

Originally posted by: DonVito
Cry me a river. I have been an attorney for the federal government for the last 6 years, and can't see any ethical boundary that would be crossed by this brand of vote-swapping (as opposed to, say, buying and selling votes for profit). If you really can't think of any activity more vile than this, we should switch jobs for a year so you can get some perspective on what constitutes truly bad behavior.

A lawyer who can't perceive ethical boundaries? SHOCKER!

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
I'm gonna set aside my ethics for the greater good of our country and our world. I truly believe we are headed in the wrong direction with Bush, and it's not as if this vote pairing system is illegal anyways. It makes sense, and hopefully if enough people catch on it will force some change to the dated EC system.

Wow, a model citizen. :roll:

Originally posted by: Todd33
Maybe you should take a long look at how your party is trying to jimmy the system in several states. Suppressing black voters in Florida and Detroit, screwing with registration in Ohio, electronic voter fraud in several sates in 2002, etc. It's almost on the party platform at this point.

Sounds like you're spouting talking points to me. :roll: Oh, and 'two wrongs make a right' is a fallacy, last I checked. I'd like to see evidence for these claims anyway, just as you would were I to submit them.