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More states join push to elect president based on popular vote
fox17 ^ | Feb. 25, 2019 | Adrian Mojica

Posted on 02/25/2019 1:13:19 PM PST by bgill

Colorado is the latest state to pass a bill which would change the way presidential candidates win office. The state joins 11 others after passing a bill to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Under the compact, the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide would be be awarded the electoral college votes from participating states, even if the candidate lost in that state. In order for the bills in states which have passed laws recognizing the agreement, a total of 270 electoral votes from participating states is needed. Colorado has joined California, Connecticut, D.C., Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. That brings the compact to 181 electoral votes of the 270 needed.

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TOPICS: Government; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Connecticut; US: District of Columbia; US: Hawaii; US: Maine; US: Maryland; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Rhode Island; US: Vermont; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: california; colorado; connecticut; districtofcolumbia; electoralcollege; faithlesselectors; hawaii; maine; maryland; nationalpopularvote; newjersey; newyork; npv; popularvote; rhodeisland; vermont; washington
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To: bgill
The state joins 11 others after passing a bill to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

This is nothing more than mob rule. The Electoral College was wisely created to prevent mob rule. If the popular vote takes over our electoral system, our country will be ruled by a handful of counties across the USA, and increase the number of ignored and forgotten men and women by the millions.

Democrats and communists have too much in common.

41 posted on 02/25/2019 1:36:03 PM PST by olezip
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To: cuban leaf
though there are a lot more people in urban areas,

Actually that is not true. If you add up all the rural small and mid sized towns and cities and compare it to the top 20 metro urban areas its about 50-50.

42 posted on 02/25/2019 1:37:37 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: bgill
My understanding is that this is a Constitutional issue, and cannot be changed without an amendment to the Constitution with 2/3rd states ratification.
43 posted on 02/25/2019 1:37:42 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Ingtar

States currently have a lot of compacts with each other over a whole range of issues. Not sure where SCOTUS would be willing to draw the line.


44 posted on 02/25/2019 1:38:32 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bk1000
True, but this is telling the Electors how they must vote.

It's no different than today.

The state legislature appoints electors who say they'll vote a certain way. In most cases for the winner of that state's popular vote.

Electors aren't required to vote any particular way, they just won't get appointed unless they agree to do the legislature's bidding.

45 posted on 02/25/2019 1:39:00 PM PST by semimojo
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To: bgill

If this flies, then anyone campaigning only has to campaign in, I think, 80 counties and a dozen cities, the rest won’t matter. Low population states won’t count at all so no need to campaign their or cater to their needs.

The mistake the left is making is applying the new rules to the “old” way of doing things- if it was the popular vote then HRC would have won! But, with new rules, every campaign would now be run differently, with different demographics and goals. Anyone campaigning in a state with only two or three House members would be wasting time and money. New Hampshire comes to mind, and Idaho.


46 posted on 02/25/2019 1:39:38 PM PST by DBrow
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To: akalinin

If this thing ever becomes legit, SCOTUS will strike it down quickly.


47 posted on 02/25/2019 1:39:55 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: HamiltonJay
As you can see here - we were actually so happy about Ronald Reagan that we gave him even more electoral votes the second time around:


48 posted on 02/25/2019 1:40:07 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: HamiltonJay

Well that is why the left wants open borders, so Republicans can NEVER win the popular vote


49 posted on 02/25/2019 1:40:30 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bgill

even if the candidate lost in that state

The Dems will to win even when they lose ,why have elections at all


50 posted on 02/25/2019 1:40:50 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: bgill

With the media as it is, maybe it will come down to a “trusted leftist” sneaking in rogue freedom policies under the noses of socialists.


51 posted on 02/25/2019 1:41:08 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: jerod

since the chances of such nonsense ever occurring is ZERO!
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That’s what I thought the chances were of us having an ineligible usurper who was a marxist and a muslim in the Oval Office.
Seven short years after 9/11, Barack Hussein Obama usurped the office in violation of the Constitution with the cooperation of both parties.


52 posted on 02/25/2019 1:41:51 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bgill

This is the real voter suppression....


53 posted on 02/25/2019 1:42:42 PM PST by mikelets456
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To: jerod
Here's a graphic to pass 'round.


54 posted on 02/25/2019 1:42:47 PM PST by rocknotsand (Rock. Not sand.)
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To: bgill

OK, so now there’s a big motivation for people in blue states who are conservative to get out and vote. Beat them over the head with their own stupidity, make sure the popular vote as well as the electoral victory goes Trump in 2020. You just know it’s going to happen, the world has been very weird that way for several years now.


55 posted on 02/25/2019 1:42:58 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: bgill

Is this how they rigged it for Hillary and screwed Bernie ? LOL


56 posted on 02/25/2019 1:43:58 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Hostage
The state has no say on how electors will vote.

Of course they do.

The state legislatures appoint electors who agree that they will vote the way the legislators want - in most cases for the winner of that state's popular vote.

It isn't binding and you could conceivably have a 'faithless' elector, but only reliable electors are going to get appointed.

57 posted on 02/25/2019 1:44:27 PM PST by semimojo
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To: neverevergiveup

2/3 t propose for ratification.
3/4 to ratify.

38 states needed to ratify. The leftist progressives will never get there so they are trying to do an end run around the Constitution.


58 posted on 02/25/2019 1:44:39 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: jerod
"...the chances of such nonsense ever occurring is ZERO"

Yep! That's what everyone thought and said 50-years ago about 90% of today's laws, regulations, school curricular, religions, the continuing loss of Constitutionally- guaranteed individual freedom & liberty, etc...etc..

But nothing significant was successfully done to stop any of it...

59 posted on 02/25/2019 1:45:57 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: harpu
the Supremes will stand by and wait for the first lawsuit

Which will be during the actual election. I wonder if SCOTUS will put their decision off until what, the following June?

60 posted on 02/25/2019 1:46:58 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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