Posted on 04/15/2014 11:40:27 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
A plan, now stealthily making its way through state legislatures with astonishing speed, would junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to the winner of the popular vote.
The plan involves an Interstate Compact where states would commit to select electors pledged to vote for the national popular vote winner regardless of how their own state voted. When enough states pass this law, sufficient to cast 270 votes which is the majority of the Electoral College, it will take effect.
So far, nine states and the District of Columbia, casting 136 electoral votes, have joined. This is halfway to the 270 needed to put the compact into effect. The ratifying states are: Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, Vermont, California, and Rhode Island.
Both houses in New York have passed it and it's on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s desk.
It has already passed in the House in Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon. These states, plus New York, represent 107 votes. Combined with the others they are up to 242 votes. They need 270.
Who is pushing this?
All of those ratifying voted for Obama.
The movement is funded, in part, by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a George Soros-funded election group.
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Because some foreign powers were not nations as we understand them today.
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This is known as the compact clause.
You can research it all day long, and you will not find one source that agrees with what you are saying.
Think about it, you are insisting that the word “State” has two definitions within the same sentence.
“No state shall.....with another state....”
That’s too nice....
Open pit and bulldoze them in.
I wonder how the inevitable lawsuit will come out. Oh, wait — Roberts is involved. Never mind.
And sadly,the GOP guy leading the pack that’s running for Michelle Bachmann’s seat supports this.(Emmer)
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