https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/letters/article/Reader-favors-popular-vote-over-electoral-college-15783816.php
Reader favors popular vote over electoral college
Published 5:00 am EST, Wednesday, December 9, 2020
After the election in 2016, it would've been unthinkable for the losing candidate's personal lawyer to appear before the Michigan Legislature and plead for the legislature to send a slate of Democratic electors to the electoral college, after Michigan voters had voted to send a Republican slate of electors.
But in the last four years, what previously was unthinkable has become reality, as Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, appeared before the Michigan Legislature on Dec. 2 to plead for them to send Republican electors to the electoral college after Michigan voters had voted to send Democratic electors.
At the time of this writing, the Michigan Legislature has correctly chosen to abide by the will of Michigan voters and send the Democratic electors. I would like to say that what Giuliani has requested is unconstitutional. Unfortunately, it is not. And that needs to change. It is made possible by a clause in the Constitution which allows state legislators to have the ultimate decision making authority when it comes to choosing electors for the electoral college.
To avoid this type of situation in the future, regardless of which party is taking advantage, the electoral College should be abolished, and the president should be elected by a simple popular vote of the entire United States, nothing more, nothing less.
TERRY R. GRAF