Posted on 07/08/2008 1:36:34 PM PDT by pabianice
Title is wrong. Should read:
“Assachusetts Presidential Voting System Could Be Changed!!!!”
Huh?
So Mass would rather give up the power of it’s electoral votes so that LA, NY and Chicago can decide every election. lol
Idiots.
I’m all for it. Let the liberals do this and watch the rest of America revolt and finally get rid of the commie states. I welcome a new civil war so that cleansing can occur.
In other words, vote away your own state’s independence.
Apparently Chief Judge Margaret Marshall (and the her
New York Times’ husband and Master) have decided to
use the General Court to overturn the US Constitution.. again.
slapshot68 said, “...I welcome a new civil war so that cleansing can occur.”
Years ago, I jokingly stated that someday this would happen, thanks to the left. I’m not joking anymore...and neither is slapshot. I wouldn’t start one...but if they do......
Is MA alone going to do this? If so, MA would have gone for Bush last election, as he won the popular vote.
In 2000, the difference between the top two candidates was 0.51% of the vote. That would have required waiting another week for all absentee ballots to arrive and then a full county by county national recount.
A state as small as Massachusetts doesn’t deserve 2 senators and Rhode Island shouldn’t have any. < /s >
Hey Massclowns, you can have your congress critters put forward a Constitutional Admendment and hope they can convince 2/3rd of the states to vote for it or you can sit the Presidential elections out, your choice. But I don’t believe you can rewrite Federal Election Laws. Hint...that’s why they call them Federal Laws.
Actually I think it’s a State’s right to award presidential electors however they want. Clearly Massachusetts wants to award them stupidly but what else is new?
A constitutional amendment is required to change the Federal electoral system for President/Vice President. To do that requires 3/4 majorities in both houses of Congress and concurrance by 3/4 of the states. Since the Republicans and the small states don’t like it, getting it out of Congress would be a trick. Ditto for getting it passed in the state legislatures. Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
Democrats: the party of endless talk about useless ideas.
But the system isn’t changing. States have the right to assign their electors in any way they choose. If they want to cut deals and make agreements with other states there’s nothing in the Constitution that says they can’t. That’s why the Democrats are doing this. They know that getting rid of electors would never get past a Constitutional amendment.
that cleansing can occur.
Let the purge begin!
LOL! This goes through and McCain wins the popular vote, Massachusetts is going to throw it’s electoral votes to him?
That is an idea. We could divide Texas into three states and use the extra four - all Republicans.
Article I, Section 10, Paragraph 3
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
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