:shrug: as far as I’m concerned, anything that bleeds a few Nazi voters off from the Republican party is a feature, not a bug.
This has nothing to do with signatures. check out the article in the first post.
But then we’d be like…New Zealand! Then we might next start…treating aboriginals decently, or something!
There is nothing in the federal Constitution which dictates the voting systems the States must use to elect their Representatives, Senators or Electors.
For example, some states allocate their electoral votes in a way that is tied to their congressional districts.
They could instead use state-wide proportional voting, or ranked preferences, or run-offs if no-one has a majority, to allocate their electoral votes.
Same for senatorial elections: a state could adopt ranked preferences or run-offs.
There is a restriction on the Representatives: federal law says that they must be elected from single-member constituencies. That likely prevents any sort of PR, but they could still have ranked preference voting, or run-offs.
(Subject of course to any limitations in the state constitutions, but my point is you wouldn’t need a constitutional convention or constitutional amendment; action can be taken at the state level.)
Sure, there are debates about the merits of different voting systems. I’m just saying it’s not set in stone and the individual states, as “laboratories of democracy” in the federal state, could try different ways to run their state and federal elections.
well the Supreme Court ruled states cannot put term limits on Congressmen. So a voting change could end up in court and not be OKd.
That’s a relief. For a second I thought I had gone to the wrong college…
Hell, we all did. Some were just wronger than others.