The Votes That Count

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : On the one hand we have legal requirements that must balance between competing values and principles.
52% : State laws for non-federal elections still vary, and there are states where aliens can vote for local and state offices and referenda.
38% : Current cases about whether states can remove Trump from the ballot are another example.
37% : Candidates ultimately compete for electors in an electoral college-which means the candidate who wins the popular national vote may not win the election (e.g., Hillary Clinton beating Trump in 2016 by some 2.8 million votes but losing the Electoral College vote, plus four others who lost the popular vote but won election thanks to the Electoral College in our history: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and George W. Bush).
30% : In a nutshell: the arguments being made to keep Trump off the ballot use rules put in place to prevent the Confederacy from attempting to return to elected office or hold power in the public trust, because they could not be trusted to honor sworn oaths.
30% : "It is easy to forget that the case Trump v. Anderson is a test of legal principles.
22% : But the President is not chosen by the popular vote, George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the popular vote but managed to become President.
18% : It struck me for both how unremarkable the claim was (the complaints about immigrants and illegal immigrants voting are common, Trump and others have complained regularly since 2016) and ignorant of history such claims are.

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