Posted on 09/06/2008 4:46:21 AM PDT by Billg64
OLYMPIA -- State senators have approved a bill that would deliver the state's electoral votes to the U.S. presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.
The bill, which passed 30-18 Monday, now heads to the House.
The bill would change Washington's current system of typically giving all of the state's electoral votes to the candidate who wins the statewide election to awarding all of the state's delegates to the national popular vote winner.
Almost every state has considered a similar bill. Maryland and New Jersey have passed such a measure.
The proposal would take effect only if enough states -- those with a majority of votes in the Electoral College -- agreed to it.
This sounds as smart a a box of rocks. If 49 states pass this rule then the 50th will decide ALL elections.
Only a liberal would even think this is a good law.
The founding fathers created the Electoral College for a reason and it has worked sublimely. This law disenfranchises the voters and usurps their vote.
Found it, thanks.
Looks like it is tabled until next year.
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/articles/forbes_20080801.php
I’m surprised someone hasn’t taken this all the way to the Supreme Court. They would definitely rule against it.
Maryland has passed this bill, but I understand that it only goes into effect if many other states agree. The (stupid) idea is that if states totaling 270 electoral votes agree to the measure, then everyone will enact it at once.
I don’t know if there’s an expiration date.
It would be sweet justice if it were to backfire in our favor of course. That’s the fastest road to getting it repealed!
If this takes effect it devalues the vote of very Marylander from 1 out of 2.5 million for 10 electoral votes, to about 1 out of 40 million for the same electoral votes.
The Electoral College gets destroyed first, then, what’s left of the Senate will come under fire. It’s not “fair” that small states get 2 Senators just like big states.
That is the most dastardly part of this bill; if it would work in the repubs favor, they do not need to trigger the new way of counting.
I’m not sure I follow this.
Would this law make it theoretically possible for 100% of the state of Massachusetts to have voted for candidate x, but the state’s delegates be awarded to candidate y because 51% of the nation did?
Bingo! We have a winner!!
Then why have states at all? Since they would not count in the national tally anyway this would be the first step in ridding the nation of individual States.
First the state borders will not count, then the national borders, pretty soon we really will have candidates campaigning in France, Ugandi, Russia, China etc because they will be voting in the US election because hey, whomever gets the U.S. Presidential election "affects them too ya know."
What a bunch of ignorant bastards.
This is a blatant attempt by the Rats to have the far left coast, the NE, and Chicago select the POTUS.
We all know how that would work out, don’t we?
They are far from ignorant. They know exactly what they are doing. They are planning on taking control of a Nation. The Electoral Cllege is all that stands between us and the unwashed masses. Once it has been neutralized 10 cities and 3 States can control a Presidental Election.
If Mc Cain is elected we will have 4 perhaps 12 years to fight this should we choose to but nothing or so nearly nothing that one could say that nothing was done in the 8 years of the Bush Administration to combat voter fraud.
Should Obama be elected we will get decide whether we will go into slavery peacefully, or not.
Those are the choices we will soon get to make.
The Dempcrat Party and the islamics intend to take over control of the United States. They are not going to deviate from this goal. They will have to be stopped.
“Seem’s we’re getting closer and closer to that edge we can’t step back from.......”
Which is why this election is so important.
If the Islamofacist puppet wins, we can kiss America good bye.
Been there, done that. Bill Clinton was elected in 1992 with 42% of the national vote.
Oh sure, join MD in its not mere stupidity, but blatant asininnity (excuse the non-word).
These assholes are essentially curtailing all our votes, and stupidly getting us in a circular situation when everyone adopts this asinine stupidity. When all states do this, then how do you send your EVs?
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