Nevada's about to commit political suicide — is the Electoral College doomed?

The Hill ^ | 05/30/19 | Gary L. Gregg

[4yearlurker]

The Nev. Governor has vetoed the bill.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Vetoed already.

[Hieronymus]

Fortunately he vetoed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3753248/posts

[kaehurowing]

The federal Voting Rights lawsuit needs to be to disqualify all of these states’ electoral votes from being counted in the total.

[Hieronymus]

If you weren’t so long-winded, you wouldn’t have posted at the same time as post 3.

[Trump20162020]

Already vetoed.

Fail of an article.

[Hang'emAll]

I’m a strong believer in the Electoral College and what they are doing is really doing us all a disservice.

But I believe Trump will win the popular vote this year and I delight in thinking they will have to support him in the EC.

Serves them right.

[SamAdams76]

State legislature just virtue signaling here. They probably knew ahead of time the governor would veto but wanted to make a "statement" nonetheless.

If Trump wins the popular vote in 2020, you will hear nary a peep from anybody on this nonsense ever again. Guaranteed.

[TalBlack]

If these popular vote jackasses want the constitutional compact to be broken then, fine, keep on this path. However: Disenfranchising me is going to make me very angry. Very very angry. Very very very angry.

[Still Thinking]

No worries. If enough lib states do this to constitute 270 EV (and lib states are the only ones that want this), then Kentucky, Tennessee, Utah, and so on, can suddenly discover 38 million (R) votes in someone’s trunk each and every election. Fight fire with fire. Libs are stupid, use that to your advantage.

[Kenny]

We have to get the truth out, the national popular vote is really only California.

It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California

Sadly media has made it seem unfair, that the majority of Americans didn't win. But if you watch any replay of 2016 election night you'll notice Trump won on national popular right through the end.

[TaxPayer2000]

What’s to stop other states from refusing to show thier popular vote talleys until after certification?

[Still Thinking]

It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California

.....assuming she actually won the PV.

[Justa]

“But I believe Trump will win the popular vote this year and I....”

There’s no way in H Trump will win the popular vote this year and you can take that to the bank.

[Fresh Wind]

The EC is the firewall that protects us from deep blue states like Kalifornia that harbor millions of illegal voters.

[Still Thinking]

Or just play the game by lib rules and actually turn this to your advantage. See my 11

[Phlyer]

The federal Voting Rights lawsuit needs to be to disqualify all of these states’ electoral votes from being counted in the total.

I think this National Popular Vote initiative is a very bad idea for all the reasons listed. I also think it will be ignored by the 'blue' states the minute a Republican gets a majority of the national popular vote.

However, it does not take a Constitutional amendment to do this. The Constitution establishes that the states get to decide how to apportion their electors, and if they choose to do so on the basis of how other states voted rather than on how their own citizens voted, then they have that authority.

Declaring it to be unConstitutional dilutes the strong arguments on how it will swing all the power in electing Presidents to the big, populous states and smaller states will lose all voice (and candidate interest). I have seen too many threads that get wrapped up in the Constitutionality argument instead of the real issue.

However, it's also a non issue. The deep blue states will go for it, but their electoral votes were always going for the collectivist candidate anyway. The 'swing' states have not been lining up for this, and if the collectivists had control of the additional 75 electoral votes needed to get this measure approved, they wouldn't need it in the first place.

[Freedom4US]

You’ve already been disenfranchised, clearly, and have been for quite some time now. Jus’ sayin’. I’m not sure what an outright popular vote would signify, other than more of the same, on steroids, with a double dose of Owsley and a Jimson weed chaser.

[4yearlurker]

Say what?