ReallY? Direct Elect president by popular vote ?! More democratic!? Democrats will get elected by massive vote margin from CA, OR, WA , NY etc.
what an idiot and waste of time.
“So far, only reliably blue states have joined the compact, including California, Massachusetts, New York and Washington. But red states like Arkansas, Arizona and Oklahoma and purple states like Michigan and North Carolina have passed the measure through at least one legislative chamber controlled by Republicans, giving backers hopes of breaking through with the GOP.
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So, the idiot willingly disenfranchises the vote of his state’s citizens? Really stupid. Wonder if this is constitutional, state or federal?
That must mean Hillary peaked too soon.
So this liberal hack governor wants California and New York to run the country? They can’t even run their own states.
It is such a good idea to give electoral power to overpopulated, inner city mobs with no clue how the country is supposed to operate, for instance the one in the Bronx and Queens who put that crazy egomaniacal ingnorant AOC in office
Leftists are determined to completely eliminate the Constitution.
They already got the GOP’s help to install an ineligible usurper.
Will they get their help with this?
this is unconstitutional. A state can’t dictate how a federal election should be decided.
He’s directing his electors to ignore the vote of the people in Colorado and vote for someone favored by other States.
Wonder if someone will point that out to the idiots.
* Except, of course, if that popular vote winner is Donald Trump.
I cannot think of a faster way to split the nation and bring on session and war than to nullify the voting significance of roughly 35 states.
Absolutely nothing.
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"The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."
The Governor must have skipped civics classes to think he can with the stroke of a pen change the Constitution of the United States of America.
That may be found in Article 2, Section 1, and the 12th Amendment.
Except not a single red or purple state has passed this.
If blue states had enough electoral votes to ramrod this through, they wouldn't even be bothering, they'd already be winning every election anyway.
a) states do not get to chose who an elector votes for; only how the electors are chosen. My guess is this also makes any "faithless" elector laws unconstitutional. Once an elector is chosen, the elector becomes a Federal official, not a state one, outside the control of the state government.
(b)how is this to be managed? Will they pass a law compelling electors to vote in the Electoral College for the largest national vote recipient? If so, see (a). Or will they choose the delegates after everyone has voted? In which case, can they disenfranchise their own voters? Under the Constitution, the state could have the state legislature pick the electors; but I don't think having an election --and-- picking the electors is kosher.
Hinging everything on the popular vote became quite popular with liberals once California wrote ballot harvesting into law. Since California is three hours behind due to time zones, the harvesters get a big jump on how many votes they need to “find”.
This is one of the biggest scams in history.
OK. I would like to make an amendment to the Constitution that any elected official who has more money at the end of each term than can be factually attributed to either their savings, investments, or their spouses earnings, has to give all of that money to the government. No exceptions. This is my New Deal.
Is STILL wouldn’t have changed the 2015 presidential results. But it has made Colorado and the other smaller states that passed this, in effect, California’s and New York’s “B^tches”
This idiocy is going to last up until the point that a strong third party candidate running from the center-left, say Howard Schultz, results in a Republican winning the popular vote.
"How do we get out of this mess?"
This will be struck down the first time it is tried.