Good point but I suspect it is set up that way because it accommodates the Jan 20 date. It would be interesting to hear what arguments would be made related to having the Electors vote say two weeks after the election.
This would also require states to complete their, so it seems, intentionally slow vote counting with-in a tighter schedul…
Good point but I suspect it is set up that way because it accommodates the Jan 20 date. It would be interesting to hear what arguments would be made related to having the Electors vote say two weeks after the election.
This would also require states to complete their, so it seems, intentionally slow vote counting with-in a tighter schedule. From my perspective, any objections would be made due to a desire to manipulate the situation, a type of last grasp.
"But this would not allow the current administration to sufficiently undermine the new one for the sake of personal gain and a seat at the table in the future!"
Those in power should have completed their agenda by election day. Anything they do after should be null and void after as they are lame duck and essentially imho out of power. They would no longer be able to undermine the incoming administration.
We are running things as if people still have to travel to DC via horse and buggy, and as if communication does not take place almost instantaneously instead of by letter.
Good point but I suspect it is set up that way because it accommodates the Jan 20 date. It would be interesting to hear what arguments would be made related to having the Electors vote say two weeks after the election.
This would also require states to complete their, so it seems, intentionally slow vote counting with-in a tighter schedule. From my perspective, any objections would be made due to a desire to manipulate the situation, a type of last grasp.
...and last gasp, too, lol, "the primal scream of a dying regime..." as Steve Bannon says.
So, both!
I agree with you, the pushback would need to be resisted, and we must insist on bringing the schedule up to the pace of the 21st century
"But this would not allow the current administration to sufficiently undermine the new one for the sake of personal gain and a seat at the table in the future!"
/sarc-off
Those in power should have completed their agenda by election day. Anything they do after should be null and void after as they are lame duck and essentially imho out of power. They would no longer be able to undermine the incoming administration.
We are running things as if people still have to travel to DC via horse and buggy, and as if communication does not take place almost instantaneously instead of by letter.