Six Georgia Lawmakers Want To Take Away Voters’ Ability To Elect Their Own Senators

Six Georgia Lawmakers Want To Take Away Voters’ Ability To Elect Their Own Senators: The Seventeenth Amendment, which guarantees that voters will elect their own U.S. senators — rather than having those senators chosen for them by the state legislature — is strangely unpopular in Tea Party circles. Both Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) believe their own elections to the United States Senate should be [...]/p