Time to Electoral College to go

Letter to the Editor

To the Editor,

     In regard to Max Boots’ article (seen in the Sunday, July 29 Cedar Rapids Gazette) titled “Without the Russians, Trump wouldn’t have won,” he and many others go on and on about all the reasons that Trump won and Hillary didn’t.

     After all the “reasons” and watching the TV debates with their own eyes and listening with their own ears, 2.9 million more people voted for Hillary than for Trump. Hillary won the popular vote. Trump won the electoral vote.

     New headline: “Without the Electoral College, Hillary would have won.”

     Popular vote means “one person, one vote.” The Electoral College destroys that concept.

     Here is how: Almost all states have “electors” and “delegates” who go to a convention to represent how their state voted. Here in Iowa we have six electors. Iowa does not proportion their delegates according to how popular the vote went.

     In Iowa, Trump got 51.1 percent of the popular vote, but got all six “electors.” Which means if you voted for Hillary, your vote did not count. Period.

     Would someone please explain to me how that is fair. The time of the “electoral college” has come and gone. None of the reasons for that system in that time period are valid in today’s world.

Keith Gillmore

Monticello, Iowa

 

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