How Will Your Vote Count ?

" Moooooo ! "

Probably not as you might like to believe.

In fact, if you live in one of
the following fourteen States,

which represents 51% of
the nations eligible voters,

according to the Electoral College,

your vote counts

THE  LEAST !

California  -  New York  -  Texas  -  Illinois
Michigan  -  Georgia  -  New Jersey  -  Indiana
Massachusetts  -  Tennessee  -  Missouri
Maryland  -  Louisiana   and   Kentucky

WHY ?

Because in the year 1787,
there was a great deal of slavery in the south
and women were certainly not considered
part of  "We, the people"  either.




James Madison originally wanted the popular vote,
but was concerned that an honest count
could at all be had because of
the massive slave population in the south.

Fifty Eight years later,
in 1845,
the Electoral College,
a political compromise,
became a federal law, 

clearly violating the basic democratic principle of 

ONE  PERSON, ONE  VOTE. 

The politicians of the time were not shy in documenting
their concerns of the enormous "Negroe" vote,
as well as Women's suffrage.

Male citizens of color were given the right to vote in 1870; women in 1920.

"It’s a terrible system;
it’s the most undemocratic way of
electing a chief executive in the world, ‘‘
said Paul Finkelman, a law professor at Albany Law School,
who teaches this year at Duke University.
‘‘There’s no other electoral system in the world
where the person with the most votes doesn’t win.’’

The Electoral College is not only a numbers game,
but also a representation of personal political power.

The "presidential electors"
are the people who elect the president,
{ there are 538 of these individuals },
and are not required by federal law
to honor popular vote within their district,
although,
we are told,
this doesn't happen very often !

As just one example of how this all mathematically adds up:

in Wyoming  139,000  voters influence  ONE  presidential elector. 

In Ohio it is almost   476,000  voters per elector. 

In Pennsylvania it's close to   478,000   voters per elector. 

The ratio becomes worse in the 14 States listed above.

That means:

ONE vote in Wyoming
counts about

THREE and a HALF TIMES MORE

than
ONE vote in Ohio !

You can learn more about this
by reading an Associated Press Article entitled

ELECTORAL  COLLEGE  MATH

written by a Scientist
and
published by the Boston Globe. 

Just click on the highlighted title to go there.

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