[OT] Anthony Kern presents perfectly legal and Constitutional bill in the Arizona legislature

[Quadibloc]

This bill proposes to allow the Arizona legislature to make use of its
Constitutional authority to select electors to send to the Electoral
College after a Presidential election... according to its own wishes,
rather than according to the count of the votes.

Ordinarily, I would not consider this particularly anti-democratic. It would
just make American democracy a little more indirect.

However, in discussion of this measure, I learned that a while back, there
was a proposition on the ballot in Arizona to bring in *non-partisan
districting*, which won, but which was overridden by the Arizona legilature.

So a self-perpetuating Republican majority in the Arizona legislature would
have the power to select the state's electors. That's not good.

John Savard

[Paul S Person]

Post by Quadibloc
This bill proposes to allow the Arizona legislature to make use of its
Constitutional authority to select electors to send to the Electoral
College after a Presidential election... according to its own wishes,
rather than according to the count of the votes.
Ordinarily, I would not consider this particularly anti-democratic. It would
just make American democracy a little more indirect.
However, in discussion of this measure, I learned that a while back, there
was a proposition on the ballot in Arizona to bring in *non-partisan
districting*, which won, but which was overridden by the Arizona legilature.
So a self-perpetuating Republican majority in the Arizona legislature would
have the power to select the state's electors. That's not good.

IIRC, they could select their own Senators if they wanted to. Or was
that changed by an actual Amendment?

The Republicans /know/ they will lose in a fair election. They /have/
to stack the deck if they are to have any chance of winning.

Note that I do not say they will lose in a fair election, or must
stack the deck to have any chance of winning. These beliefs are
/their/ problem, not necessarily reality, at least in the long run.

I /do/ think that, if the voters of States like Arizona would vote
solidly Democat for /just one election/, it might shake the
Republicans up to the point that they become people worth voting for
again. Hey, it's worth trying.