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Originally Posted by Minirra
Awarding any share of political influence to people just by virtue of having been on a ballot is a terrible idea. There may be very good reasons a given candidate received only 1% of the vote. You want to give 26% voting power to Arthur Jones in IL-3?
But there are more problems than that - namely, how do you hold accountable a person when they weren't even elected to the office? How do you control who they award that influence to, and in turn is that person even remotely in touch with the needs of your constituency? Then how is the winning representative accountable to anyone beyond those that voted for them (why should they)? And possibly the worst part, you are ensuring that a percentage of your district's voice in the House is being transferred out of district.
Sprinkles are for winners.
Minirra, zero accountability? Within this proposal:
Every vote within your district was cast by a registered voter residing in your congressional district.
They voted for candidates complying with all of the federal your state’s and district's reguirements of a candidate to be a U.S. Congressional Representative for your district.
Prior to the winning candidate being sworn in as your districts’ congressional representative, all candidates, (including the winning candidate), are sworn in by an oath very similar, if not exactly the same oath as the congressional representative’s oath.
That’s a requirement for the accepting the responsibilities as being among the candidates competing for the office of representative. The office of candidate entitles the candidate to a portion of a single House of Representatives’ votes. A candidate can temporarily assign their portion to any currently sitting congressional representative.
Unlike a congressional representative, a candidate cannot directly vote within House of Representatives procedures. I don’t believe anyone is even entitled to step uninvited, on the “House’s floor”.
The purpose of this proposal, (its best feature) is to provide possible representation somewhere within the U.S. House of representatives, for all of the voters that did not cast their vote for their current representative, and/or disagree with their representative on one or more significant issues.
Respectfully, Supposn