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Letters to the Editor (9/22/21) sevendaysvt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sevendaysvt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Republicans do want fewer voters, and for a reason Published: 4/16/2021 6:43:58 AM Many people don’t know what Paul Weyrich said in 1980: “I don’t want everybody to vote . . . our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Weyrich, the co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), was immensely influential among conservatives. Sen.Ted Cruz recently told Republican state legislators convened by ALEC that a proposed federal law to make voting easier would prevent Republicans from winning elections for generations. Kevin Williamson asked in the conservative National Review why having more people vote is a good thing; why not make sure voters are “qualified” like we do for doctors? ....
To the Editor: The Electoral College is Hardly Necessary to Democracy. The history that Weiland Ross offers in âThe Electoral College protects democracyâ (4/2) ignores the role that slavery played in the origins of the Electoral College. Under the Electoral College system, a fraction of a stateâs slave population was taken into account in determining how many representatives the slave states would have in Congress, increasing the number of electoral votes they could cast. Since slaves could not vote, choosing the president by popular vote have given slave states far less power. It is very unlikely that, as noted in Magdalena Usateguiâs recent commentary on the same subject, âA slaveholding Virginian was President for 32 of the first 36 years that the Constitution governed our countryâ had the president been selected by popular vote. Apart from this glaring omission of history, Ross never really supports his basic premise that âThe E ....
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