I disagree that no one could be more stupid and mean than Rep Jim Banks [FN1] and Micah Beckwith. [FN2] There are over eight billion people on Earth. [FN3] The odds alone negate such an assertion. Then these events occur. Beckwith re-tweets a Banks re-tweet: 1/10

“After the next census, illegal aliens will have more representation in the electoral college than the entire population of Indiana. That’s the point of the Biden border crisis.”
I must ask: are they ANTIFA plants or Deep State double agents? Gosh golly! 2/10

First, the phrase “electoral college” appears nowhere in The Constitution. This is not a matter of mere semantics. Hamilton emphasized the importance of a body that would deliberate and pick a chief magistrate. [FN4] Each State determines how its “Electors” are selected. [FN5] 3/10

Second, Indiana, like most States, requires electors to vote for the slate of candidates of the party that chose the electors. [FN6] Then we come to the real “devil”: “winner-take-all” to apportion the votes of electors. That became the predominant after the election of 1824. 4/10

Andrew Jackson won the popular vote, but the House selected John Quincy Adams. Jefferson had argued a State would have more power if its electors were chosen as a bloc. [FN7] This is what effectively disenfranchises many voters. If “A” wins Indiana 50.1% to “B” 49.9% 5/10

the voters in the latter group are disenfranchised. The GOP candidate for Pres, since 1988, only has won the popular vote once (Bush, 2004). [FN8] Banks & Beckwith are upset about a group having “more representation” amongst electors than that group should have. 6/10

This is diabolically brilliant as a stealth argument to restore the right to vote of everyone with its implicit tossing aside of electors. On the other hand, if Banks did not realize what he was doing, that won’t add to him being Mr Happy. Either way, Beckwith is clueless. 7/10

Footnotes:
FN1. U.S. Rep, INCD3, GOP and candidate for U.S. Senate.
FN2. Ham County preacher/wannabe elected political official and former member Hamilton East Public Library (HEPL) board of trustees. 8/10

Footnotes:
FN3. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#:~:text=8.1%20Billi...(current),currently%20living)%20of%20the%20world.
FN4. Hamilton, The Federalist 68. 9/10

Footnotes:
FN5. U.S. Const. Art. I, sec. 2; Amend. XII.
FN6. I.C. § 3-10-4-1.7.
FN7. https://fairvote.org/how-the-electoral-college-became-winner-take-all/
FN8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_el... 10/10