<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 12:45 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">> ​I see no reason why a voter in ​</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">Wyoming</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"> should have 66.7 times more power over deciding who gets to be a senator than a voter in California, ​or why the Wyoming guy should have 18.3 times more power in choosing the next president than the California guy.  … John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>The electoral college protects the power and relevance of state governments. <p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div>I don't see how 66.7 California voters being equal to one Wyoming voter helps <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​the ​</div>government <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​in</div> Sacramento; and the state government of California is far more important than the state government of <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Wyoming​</div>.  And it seems that a disproportionate number of anti-libertarian laws<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ are state laws​</div>, like restrictions<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div> on abortion and freedom of speech and <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​the ​</div>teaching <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​of ​</div>Evolution<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​;​</div> although I admit the State of Washington, Oregon, Vermont<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ and California have been way ahead of the federal government ​and of everybody else on euthanasia. Actually that's another thing that pisses me off about libertarians, why isn't the right to die a bigger deal with them? Yeah they say they're for it but it's about number 147 on their list of priorities. To hell with the right to carry a machine gun under your coat, why isn't the right to die the number one libertarian issue?  </div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>The electoral college introduces all manner of weirdness, but it is good weirdness.  It helps protect (to some extent) against ballot cheating.<p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><font size="4">Fox news <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​and ​</div>hillbilly<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ radio ​</div>would lead one to believe that voter fraud was a huge problem that can only be fixed by requiring extensive red tape before somebody can vote, but the facts are that out of the 197,000,000<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>votes cast for federal candidates between 2002 and 2005, only 40 votes were suspected of being fraudulent<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,​</div> and of those <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​40 ​</div>only 26 were convicted, so 99.99999987% of the votes cast <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​were ​</div>genuine<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ and that's good enough for government work.​</div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div> </div><br></div><br></div></div>