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| The Electoral College: Source of Inequality and Social Injustice in America by Gary Parish |
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| SUMMARY: YOU HAVE THE FACTS. NOW YOU MUST TAKE ACTION |
• One Person One Vote Myth • Fundamentally Unfair! • See For Yourself! • Social Injustice • Football Analogy • Moral Arguments • EC Cancels Votes • Founding Fathers • Invalid Arguments For EC • States' Rights? • Reform Options • Conclusion • Inequality Maps • EC Cartoons • Postscript:Voting Power • References • Acknowledgements • Action Center • Get Involved • E-mail White House • E-mail Congress • E-mail Newspapers • E-mail Political Parties • E-mail Networks • E-mail Media • Calling Cards • Teaching Notes |
The inequality caused by the Electoral College demonstrated on this web site is too serious to be ignored. If Americans are not equal at the ballot box, they are not equal under the law. The consequences of such inequality can be disasterous to a people or a nation. It was because Americans were not treated as equals by the British that we declared our independence from England and created the United States of America. It was the unequal rights of slaves that led to the US Civil war.
The Electoral College has become a major source of constitutionally sanctioned inequality and social injustice in the United States. It must be reformed if the United States is to avoid increasing social, political, and minority unrest in the future. The only Electoral College reform options that can eliminate this inequality and injustice are: 1) the direct election of the president without the encumbrance of the Electoral College and the states; and 2) the House plan--also called the neo-Wilson option--that removes the senatorial electors, replaces "winner take all" with "in proportion to the votes received" but keeps everything else about the Electoral College intact. Because it involves the minimum change to the Constitution, the House plan is recommended. All Americans are blighted by the inequality and injustice caused by the Electoral College. The task before Americans is to convince a suffient number of those who are the beneficiaries of this unjust system to reform it for the benefit of all Americans. However, reforming the Electoral College will not be easy. We need to raise peoples' consciousness about the problems of the electoral college. Then we need a nationwide referendum to amend the constitution. We cannot count on our elected representatives because they have taken an oath to uphold the constitution--with the flawed Electoral College--and will be accused by their opponents of failing to uphold their oath of office if they advocate Electoral College reform. Only the people, by direct action can reform the Electoral College. Only people like you can eliminate these inequalities. This web site provides the facts for you to understand the problems caused by the Electoral College and the tools for you to take action. The Constitution must be changed, and only an informed citizenry acting in their own best interests can do it. You must take action now to make America a better place for future generations. Make a committment to yourself to do something every day to reform the Electoral College system. Use the resources on this web site to let your voice be heard by your government representatives, your party, your local media, newspapers, and the national media. Your children, grandchildren, and all Americans will be the beneficiaries of your actions. |
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