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Is the Election Really Over?
So, many of us are, by now, thoroughly tired of certain people refusing to admit that the 2020 Presidential election is, in fact, over.
Yesterday, the electoral college voted, with no faithless electors, alternate slates, or other shenanigans.
The vote was live streamed, something I hope we will continue to do for as long as we have an electoral college. Transparency is good.
So, there’s one last thing which has to happen:
Congress has to count the votes.
Why Does Congress Count Electoral Votes?
The founding fathers distrusted mass democracy, as did most at the time. The franchise, when this country was founded, was limited to white landowners, and to men.
They did not envision the President being elected directly by the people.
Because of this, they implemented the electoral college, and the original idea was that the President would be chosen by the states.
Over time, the President became a directly-elected position, but through a kind of, well, kludgy solution that avoided the need to rewrite…