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Connecticut lawmakers pass measure to give electoral votes to presidential candidate who
The Hill ^ | April 26, 2018 | JACQUELINE THOMSEN

Posted on 04/27/2018 4:30:42 PM PDT by lowbridge

The Connecticut state House passed a measure Thursday that would give the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who won the popular vote, if enough states promise to do the same.

The bill would have the state join an interstate compact that grants participating states’ votes to candidates who win the popular vote, the Hartford Courant reported.

However, the compact doesn’t go into effect until enough states join for the group to have 270 electoral votes — the amount a presidential candidate must earn to win the Electoral College. 

Ten states have joined the group so far, representing a total of 165 electoral votes. 

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: connecticut; electoralvotes
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1 posted on 04/27/2018 4:30:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

State Senate vote needed and yet no meaning until tally 270 ev.
Meanwhile why not award as Maine and Nebraska?


2 posted on 04/27/2018 4:32:21 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: lowbridge

All Blue States have joined the compact.

Meaningless because they would never award their EV to a Republican candidate who won the popular vote and in the unlikely that ever happened, they would swiftly withdraw from the compact.

CT is not going to go the GOP in our lifetime anyway.


3 posted on 04/27/2018 4:34:04 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: lowbridge

Do states have the right to rewrite electoral college rules?


4 posted on 04/27/2018 4:34:09 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

I don’t believe this is at all Constitutional.


5 posted on 04/27/2018 4:35:50 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: lowbridge

Woe the Republic.


6 posted on 04/27/2018 4:36:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Crucial

Since when has the Constitution mattered to so-called “progressives”?

Even the early ones opposed it.


7 posted on 04/27/2018 4:37:43 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: lowbridge

CT lawmakers(breakers) reject the Constitution of the USA.


8 posted on 04/27/2018 4:37:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jacknhoo
"Do states have the right to rewrite electoral college rules?"

They aren't "rewriting electoral college rules"...they are laying out how electors in their state will be chosen, which is a Constitutional power that state legislatures have a monopoly on (and always have). The chosen electors still have to "meet" and cast their votes.

There are already states with different ways of choosing electors. The one I like best is that the electors shall be chosen by congressional district, with their votes going to the majority of voters in each district, and two statewide electors.

9 posted on 04/27/2018 4:43:00 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: lowbridge

This popular vote initiative is so constitutionally abusive, I don’t know how anyone can take it seriously.

But, then, sometimes I think that our laws have gotten so complicated that there is rarely a clear answer to anything. I think about it in the Godel sense of, within a complex enough system, statements can come up which can neither be proved nor disproved. Of course, the law, despite its physics envy which enshrines precedent as settled law, is much more capricious than a rigorous mathematical system.

But, I am still left with the feeling that the law is so ornate that there are many pockets that are unpredictable, perhaps deliberately so. That’s why, for example, CNN can go on for hours about the happy possibility that something Trump or someone he knows can be construed as a technical violation of some law, any law. No one knows.


10 posted on 04/27/2018 4:44:59 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: jacknhoo

States have the right to award their electoral votes in any manner they (the state government) decides.

They could make it strictly a decision of the state legislature and leave it at that, and as the populace does directly elect the state legislature that would be fine.


11 posted on 04/27/2018 4:45:00 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: goldstategop

All Blue States are on the suicide march.


12 posted on 04/27/2018 4:46:00 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: lowbridge

Not liking the Constitution doesn’t give the right to circumvent it.


13 posted on 04/27/2018 4:48:46 PM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: Crucial

As I recall it, any agreements between states require congressional approval. I also don’t think that awarding electors based on the voting in other states meets the guarantee of republican government to the states.


14 posted on 04/27/2018 4:49:47 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slavesf.)
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To: lowbridge
Democracy stinks. History is littered with short-live democracies that cratered between the bloodlettings of factions going at each other’s throats. Our Framers were well aware of their shortcomings from the lessons of history and their personal experiences since 1776.

The National Popular Vote - Vicious Democracy.

http://articlevblog.com/2016/08/the-national-popular-vote-vicious-democracy/

15 posted on 04/27/2018 4:50:12 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: lowbridge

I remember reading that Soros is behind this.
Surprise


16 posted on 04/27/2018 4:52:19 PM PDT by dontreadthis (huh?)
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To: SMGFan

‘Meanwhile why not award as Maine and Nebraska?’

too sensible; thus, not to be considered...


17 posted on 04/27/2018 4:52:28 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: lowbridge
If the legislature of any state really gives the state's electoral votes away against the will of the people of their state, they will find out what the pointy end of pitchforks are for.

It makes snowflakes feel fuzzy and safer though.

18 posted on 04/27/2018 4:52:37 PM PDT by dead
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To: lowbridge
"The Connecticut state House passed a measure Thursday that would give the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who won the popular vote."

Wouldn't they be, in fact, ripping off the voters in their own State..?? I mean the people of say, West Virginia could vote 100% for some guy that supports coal, only to have their votes turned over to some pasty-faced faggot from California... I don't think that would go over too good...

19 posted on 04/27/2018 4:53:02 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Bob

Like waves endlessly hitting the shore, LIB lunatics come up with more bizarre lunacy each day. No wonder LIBTARDS closed mental institutions. They knew where they were headed. Malignancies all...


20 posted on 04/27/2018 4:54:00 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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