Posted on 04/27/2018 4:30:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Connecticut state House passed a measure Thursday that would give the states 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 doesnt 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
State Senate vote needed and yet no meaning until tally 270 ev.
Meanwhile why not award as Maine and Nebraska?
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.
Do states have the right to rewrite electoral college rules?
I dont believe this is at all Constitutional.
Woe the Republic.
Since when has the Constitution mattered to so-called “progressives”?
Even the early ones opposed it.
CT lawmakers(breakers) reject the Constitution of the USA.
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.
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.
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.
All Blue States are on the suicide march.
Not liking the Constitution doesn’t give the right to circumvent it.
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.
The National Popular Vote - Vicious Democracy.
http://articlevblog.com/2016/08/the-national-popular-vote-vicious-democracy/
I remember reading that Soros is behind this.
Surprise
‘Meanwhile why not award as Maine and Nebraska?’
too sensible; thus, not to be considered...
It makes snowflakes feel fuzzy and safer though.
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...
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...
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