Posted on 05/30/2019 3:13:39 PM PDT by SMGFan
AUGUSTA —The Maine House rejected a bill Thursday that would have Maine join a compact of states pledging to award their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote during presidential elections.
The 66-76 vote against the measure comes two weeks after the Senate agreed to add Maine to a growing number of states aiming to elect presidents by popular vote.
The Senate voted, 19-16 to have Maine join an interstate compact in which participating states agree to award their Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes nationwide.
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Dummycrats are greatly saddened.
Voters in these NPV states should be storming their capitols with rope, tar snd pitchforks.
If Democrats can get that many EVs by NPV, they should be able to just win the election, doncha think?
“Voters in these NPV states should be storming their capitols with rope, tar snd pitchforks.”
Just the rope will do.
The NPV states tend to be liberal states , whose voters are in favor of this twisting of election procedures to get a Democrat president.
Yep, Nevada’s Dem Governor vetoed their bill authorizing the change and Maine’s House rejects it as well.
Probably going to be stuck at 189 EV for some time, maybe forever. Likely end up about like the Equal Rights Ammendment.
How about just not vote for buffoons come election time!
If the Democrats want this , run on it in 2020 for state races. Also the control of redistricting in 2021 - 22.
EV wise in 2020 Democrats are 188 Solid...22 “likely”
How can they get to 270.
Somebody must be educating them on just what would happen to smaller states if this wild scheme is adopted.
No body would be campaigning in New England for one.
All these quaint town meetings in various small towns would no longer happen since the the Democrats can count on New York and California to put them over based on popular vote.
On the surface this seems to be unconstitutional as it can disenfranchise the states voters.
Glad they are calling it what it actually is.
No State shall... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State... [Article 1 Section 10]
All these quaint town meetings in various small towns would no longer happen
What, is every Maine resident a member of state assembly?
The 2020 Election is going to be a mess ,just the way the Dems want it
I didn’t know the NV gov vetoed it. It was reported he was expected to sign it. It’s a really bad idea in so many ways, assuming it would get enough states and pass Constitutional muster.
Well what do you know? A Dem governor and Maine’s Dem House rejected it? Wow, words escape me!
At least the people in Maine are too smart to hand their votes over to California and New York......
I believe that the founding fathers didn’t think the EC would decide the winner all too often. They expected that the states would each run their own candidates or in small coalitions, but that it would fragment among 3 or more candidates so that no single person would get enough electors. They expected the POTUS would mostly be chosen by the House. But as it turns out, after President Washington, we traded their state factionalism in for party factionalism. AFAIK only 2 POTUS’ were chosen by the House.
If you ask me, the party system is the root of most of our governmental problems. The 17th Amendment was sold by the left as a way to give more power to the people (and I’ll admit the statehouse sausage making process to select a Senator was probably very ugly)... but it was a ploy to strip the states of their power and give it to the party bosses eg Tammany Hall and Mayor Daley.
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