Re: “Abolish the Electoral School for the great of the nation” [Feb. 24, Opinion]:
Whereas I agree with Scott Newcombe, I worry we’re endlessly caught with this antiquated strategy of electing the nation’s president.
Ratifying the Structure to dismiss the Electoral School would require a good vote of the U.S. Senate. Nevertheless, the U.S. Senate is in itself a small-scale, but equally highly effective model of the Electoral School. Inside its chambers, states with very small populations resembling Wyoming and Vermont have equal footing (two votes every) with states with bigger populations like California, Texas, Florida and New York.
Since energy and politics are so eternally interwoven, it’s unthinkable that much less populated states would select to abrogate the ability slathered upon them by way of the twelfth Modification.
Dave Humphrey, Bellevue
