{"id":25698,"date":"2023-03-29T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25698"},"modified":"2023-03-29T19:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T02:52:21","slug":"op-ed-does-the-14th-amendment-disqualify-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/29\/op-ed-does-the-14th-amendment-disqualify-the-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"OP-ED: DOES THE 14TH AMENDMENT DISQUALIFY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-70.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48435\" width=\"615\" height=\"383\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Electoral College was established in 1804 by the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but can it pass the \u201cequal protection\u201d test of the 14th Amendment which was established in 1866?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wyoming population 578,803 (2021) has 3 electoral votes = 192,934 per electoral vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California population 39,240,000 (2021) has 55 electoral votes =&nbsp;<strong>713,455<\/strong>&nbsp;per electoral vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it takes almost four California voters to equal one Wyoming voter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Equal Protection Clause was part of the 14th Amendment (passed in 1866), which, I would think, supersedes the 12th Amendment which established the Electoral College in 1804.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we have equal protection under the U.S. Constitution, isn\u2019t it reasonable to conclude that the Electoral College is unconstitutional on the basis that my vote in California is only worth about a quarter of the value of somebody who\u2019s voting in Wyoming?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Zonta<br>OccupySF.net Co-Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral College was established in 1804 by the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but can it pass the \u201cequal protection\u201d test of the 14th Amendment which was established in 1866? Consider the following: Wyoming population 578,803 (2021) has 3 electoral votes = 192,934 per electoral vote. California population&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/29\/op-ed-does-the-14th-amendment-disqualify-the-electoral-college\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[328,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25699,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698\/revisions\/25699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}