Since Election Day, we’ve been reading the opinions of editors, columnists and letter writers. The majority continue to talk about how all votes count and that every vote is important.
We submit that those statements are false when American voters choose a president.
The hundreds of votes of the majority in Florida completely nullify the hundreds of thousands votes cast by the majority of voters in the total 50 states.
Obviously some votes count more than others. “One person, one vote” is meaningless.
All this because of a system called the Electoral College, an anachronism that is still part of our Constitution.
It must be changed or eliminated.
The presidency is the one office that represents all citizens. It should reflect citizens’, not states’, concerns. America cannot continue to claim its place as a beacon of democracy to the rest of the world if voters are constitutionally forced to become part of a winner-take-all bloc of electors rather than be counted as individuals.
Our neighbors in Mexico and Canada have shown recently that a popular vote-count works.
Americans must make sure that never again will an occasion arise where a majority vote is nullified.
