[Steve_Seattle]

"2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."

This has only to do with the manner in which the electors are selected; it does not give the states the authority to tell the electors how to vote, or to allow the votes of the state electors to be overruled by the national popular vote.

It is a violation of the basic principles of representative, republican government and of American federalism.

This law is intended to render the electoral college meaningless by violating the will of the people in the respective states, and by effectively turning the presidential election into a national popular vote, in violation of the Constitution.

[TexasGator]

“This has only to do with the manner in which the electors are selected; it does not give the states the authority to tell the electors how to vote, or to allow the votes of the state electors to be overruled by the national popular vote. “

Dude, presently the states select the electors that will vote the way their legislatures want them to.

For example, even if a candidate wins by one vote, the state will SELECT electors such that they ALL vote for that candidate as directed by the legislatures.