Of course the American President is actually NOT directly elected by the popular vote….
So?
We have the REAL election decision made NOT in November but in December by a group of people attached to the popular vote ion their state….
Donald Trump tried to replace those ‘elector’s’ with HIS electors…
Congress is trying to tighten that up….
But a new poll backs up the idea that state or even an losing President should NOT be able to game the system to their advantage….
A majority of Americans in a new poll support the idea of making it harder for politicians to override general election results.
The Politico/Morning Consult poll published Wednesday found that 52 percent of respondents said it should be harder for lawmakers to override presidential election results, while 26 percent opposed the idea.
Similarly, 53 percent of surveyed voters said it should be harder for state governments to override presidential election results, while a smaller 17 percent voiced opposition to the idea of barring state governments from overriding results.
Support for making it harder for Congress to override election results was higher among Democratic respondents, 66 percent, while 45 percent of Independents and 42 percent of Republicans also backed the idea.
Slightly more Independents — 50 percent — said they supported the idea of making it harder for state governments to override election results, though support among Republicans and Democrats for changes at the state level was comparable to the federal level.
The poll comes after the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday advanced proposed legislation that would make adjustments to the 1887 Electoral Count Act, clarifying that a sitting vice president doesn’t have the power to unilaterally overturn a presidential election and raising the threshold for lawmakers to object the Electoral College vote….