Posted on 07/21/2010 11:57:50 AM PDT by jessduntno
The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill that would give the state’s Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.
The bill approved by the Senate 28-10 last week is part of a nationwide effort to secure the agreement of enough states so the winner of the national popular vote would be guaranteed to win the presidency.
The bill will not go into effect until states possessing a majority of Electoral College votes pass similar legislation. Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii and Washington state have approved the measure.
The House passed its version of the legislation in June.
The bill will now be sent to Gov. Deval Patrick.
(Excerpt) Read more at baystatebanner.com ...
At first glance I thought that maybe MD gave up it's right to vote Democrat every election. But then I noticed the loophole that keeps the law from being enacted. If they really believe this crap, they should get rid of the loophole now and let another state pick their president in 2012. ( I would complain about that too LOL)
guess that’s it then.
“This maneuver will give the voting power to the socialist laden urban areas at the expense of the Conservative rural areas.”
Exactly...we will be controlled by the dazzling urbanites...
Sounds like an unconstitutional interstate compact to me. But let the experts hash that one out.
“The national populist vote that Al Gore and Rats love to brag about from 2000 differed by 0.51% between the two candidates (half of one percent) which would have necessitated a NATIONWIDE PRECINCT BY PRECINCT RECOUNT. Dumb idea, New Englanders.”
They forgot about Kennedy already, I guess...
Seems to me that the Sherman Antitrust Act could be used to beat this back. We can be sure that Eric Holder is planning to file charges right this moment. /s
Your scenario gets even better! If Mass has to give those votes to Palin, yet those electoral votes would have allowed a Democrat to win the electoral college and win the presidency!
The Democrats are banking on more people being added to the welfare rolls and thus more voters for democrats.
Good analysis.
unless they pass this first, amenesty for illegals will not have as big an infulence on the election, see if you just add 12 million new votes to states like CA and MA that are already mostly democrat it will not change the election results, but make it about the popular vote and add 12 million new undocumented democrats and now you can really steal some elections...
it’ll never get passed the Supreme Court
it’ll never get passed the Supreme Court
It is hard to imagine a more fundamental affront to the whole political/constitutional history of the United States than this provision.
John / Billybob
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so if they had done this 30 years ago their electoral votes would have gone to Reagan?
John / Billybob
Because the national popular vote might actually be close, and thus your GOP vote in Massachusetts might actually count, whereas the majority Masshole vote will be for the Donk. Then, when the Republican wins the popular vote, and the networks color Massachusetts red, the libtards will have shot themselves in the foot.
They did go to Reagan. TWICE!
Doesn’t different states have different criteria for determining voter eligibility? And would that mean that MA would have to discount all votes made by people in other states but that would be ineligible in MA in the “popular vote”?
Regadless, what a cluster-f**k. Like someone already mentioned, you would have recounts in every voting district in every state in the US, every election. And even with that, you’d have a more error-prone and fraud-vulnerable system than today.
“Regadless, what a cluster-f**k.”
Yep...creating as much chaos as possible...they are just f***ing with us now because they can...civil war can not be far behind...
What “they” are missing is that no state knows what the popular vote is until ALL absentee ballots are counted.... not just those counted in a so-called close election. Until every single absentee ballot is counted, there is no way to determine who actually wins the popular vote. Thus the liberal cry of “Bush stole the election” because ALGORE won the popular vote is complete BS.
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