• Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    So they’re just vote carriers. Unlike the actual representatives on this hill who spend most of the year actually governing for you.

    Cool. Glad you cleared up that electors are useless and not really representatives.

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      11 months ago

      They’re still appointed representatives of the state, though. States vote in the election, per the Constitution.

      I’d love to ditch the EC, but it does exist, and the electors are representatives. This isn’t complicated at all, and I’m not sure why this is personal to you.

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        11 months ago

        No one voted for them, they are not representatives. They are vote carriers.

        Sullying the actual work representatives do by calling glorified vote carriers the same thing is an insult to the word representative.

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          11 months ago

          They represent the state in the actual election of the President. “Faithless electors” are a thing, at least as a theoretical concept.

          It’s not insulting to use words for what they mean. I am so very confused by your underlying hostility here.