The National Pulse reported on Jan. 12 that House Democrats introduced a bill on Jan. 11 to abolish the Electoral College by adding seven amendments to the Constitution.
The bill proposes “an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would abolish the Electoral College and directly elect the president and vice president of the United States.” The eight sponsors of the bill are Representatives Steve Cohen, Zoe Lofgren, Jan Schakowsky, Julia Brownley and Peter DeFazio. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Rep. John Garamendi, and Rep. Jim Cooper (R-Okla.).
According to the bill, the amendment is needed because the Electoral College system was created “in an era of limited national communication and information sharing” and because citizens at the time “knew more about the electors and less about the presidential candidates from out of state,” premises and constraints that no longer exist.
The bill would require 2/3 of the U.S. House and Senate to pass and would be ratified within seven years of the states allowing it to do so.
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