Posted on 12/23/2016 1:46:31 PM PST by dirtboy
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Frustrated after seeing another candidate secure the presidency without winning the national popular vote, mostly Democratic lawmakers in several capitols want their states to join a 10-year-old movement to work around the Electoral College.
In states including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico, legislators have said they plan to introduce legislation that would require their state's Electoral College voters cast ballots for the presidential candidate who earns the most votes nationwide, regardless of the statewide results.
"Every vote in this country should have equal weight. The Electoral College is a relic of a bygone era, and we need to change this system," said Connecticut state Sen. Mae Flexer, who filed a bill with several fellow Democrats requiring Connecticut to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Since 2006, 11 states have signed onto the compact, which require their Electoral College voters to cast ballots for the national popular vote winner. In theory it would take effect once it involves states representing at least 270 electoral votes, the threshold to win the presidency.
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And these figures are from where?
I suspect we would be in awe if we were able to view those meetings.
We have become a more crass society.
They didn’t just plop down a blueprint. They studied and came up with what I consider to be an amazing set of documents that still hold us together today.
It is tomfoolery for folks to talk the Founders and the Founding Documents down. They are still the premier planners, drafters, and documents of any nation that I am aware of.
We are very lucky to live in the nation founded by such men, with documents to protect us and limit governance.
Those of us who don’t live in the big cities, don’t want the big cities to make the call for our president.
Every voter has a voice......not just the ones in the big cities.
Merry Christmas...
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