Re: Censorship Communist style

On 1/9/21 1:53 PM, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 1/9/2021 3:44 PM, Dade Jazzba wrote:
>> On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 3:24:34 PM UTC-5, WaltS48 wrote:
>>> On 1/9/2021 2:59 PM, Dade Jazzba wrote:
>>>> I will be dumping Firefox (when I get around to it) as I object to Nazi /communist statements from Mozilla...what a bunch of creeps you are.
>>>>
>>> We aren't Mozilla.
>>>
>>> Goodbye creep.
>> The reason for blocking people is so you don't have to see the evidence of your cheating.... feeling guilty?...so coverup all you want...you are exposed (Streisand effect)
>>
> 
> What cheating and what evidence?
> 
> If you are talking about the US election, then Biden won the popular
> vote and the Electoral College vote.
> 
> Unlike Trump who lost the popular vote in 2016 and stole the Electoral
> College vote.

IIRC, if you take a *strict* view of the Constitution, the popular vote 
in a state can be ignored by the state legislature in picking the 
electors to the Electoral College.  Evem then, an elector can vote for 
the candidate of their choice.  That happened here in Colorado in 2016. 
The popular vote was for Clinton.  The ballots for the College were 
preprinted for Clinton, but one elector scratched out Clinton and wrote 
in Trump.  Someone else then scratched that out and changed the vote 
back to Clinton.  Went to court.  The vote was cast for Trump.

Conclusion...  You can't change a choice a voter makes.  :-)  I doubt it 
made the national news,  but it was on the local news.

Essentially, it means electors can vote the way they wish, although I'm 
not aware of any massive rogue voting.  <G>  I just read about a state, 
I don't remember the state or year, where the state legislature had 
electors vote opposite the popular vote.

The framers of the Constitution did consider electing the President by 
popular vote, but dropped the idea for various reasons.  Wikipedia has a 
good article on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College

If you really want to see a mess, check out the 1876 election between 
Hayes and Tilden.  Neither candidate got a majority of electoral college 
votes.  This led to the end of Reconstruction, the eventual passage of 
many of the voter suppression laws passed by Southern Democrats.  Yep, 
Democrats.

African-american legislators at the state level

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_officeholders_during_the_Reconstruction_era

Other interesting pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_officeholders_in_the_United_States,_1789%E2%80%931866

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls


So much American history we are not taught in schools.  :-(




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