MyFoxTampaBay posted on their web site an article about how millions of Florida votes will not count in the Democratic primary, how true this is. But why didn’t MyFoxTampaBay all so write an article on how millions more Florida Votes will not count in the presidential vote of 2008?
Our year 2000, 2004 election is behind us and the 2008 election will soon be here and the problems that arose from past elections are starting to fade in the minds of many. This should not be, fore these problems have appeared six times in the past and will appear again in future elections. The problems were brought about with the section of our Constitution relating to the electoral collage causing our election of a president to be decided from the selection of a few and not the will of many. (Article II – The creation of the Electoral Collage) And because of Article II of our Constitution we the legal citizens of the United States can not vote for the president of the United States, only our local, state and federal congressional representatives. There are many faults in the methods used to vote, but we should vote anyway and try and be heard on how we feel.
As examples of this we only have to go back to the election of 1872 Ulysses Grant v Horace Greeley, Greeley died one month after the election, the electoral vote was then spread out among the other candidates with 17 ELECTORS NOT VOTING and GRANT WINNING THE ELECTION. Note: The representatives of the electoral collage do not have to vote for the person they were sent there for or do they have to vote at all, therefore the vote of many is a wasted vote and the vote of a few is the only vote that counts. Changing Article II of the Constitution with an amendment before the 2008 election is possible but not likely, given the actions of the State of Maryland giving all their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote is one way of bypassing an amendment and Florida could due the same bringing Florida into the 21st Century.
