It is claimed that they want each vote to count. If that were true, electors would be handed out via congressional district. That would really make your vote count!
I suspect where this whole thing hits a roadblock is due to the fact that many of the states (if not all of them) have little or no ballot integrity measures in place:
Can’t look at citizenship
Can’t remove dead voters
No voter ID
Ballots mailed to voters not requesting them
(and now) Vote harvesting
This national compact would institutionalize, enshrine, and reward all of those things, and probably a few I’ve not thought of yet.
The courts may step in, for this reason.
Oh, and hurry up RBG.
I live in California and I see what the popular vote does. Republicans here have no voice in anything.
I support the EC but I don’t support the winner-takes-all approach. If a candidate wins 51% of the vote in a state, they shouldn’t get 100% of the EC’s, they should get 51% of the EC’s in that state.
I live in California, and I would be more compelled to vote if this were the case. Because even if my candidate only won 35% of the EC’s, at least I’d know I contributed to that. I think it would represent people more accurately and encourage more people to be part of the election process while at the same time avoiding the mob rule and protecting the sanctity of the constitution.
How can this country have a "national popular vote" when election and ballot standards are subject to individual state laws?
This moron acts like there was no such thing as a "swing state" before 1990.
Posted: Apr 01, 2019 12:01 AM
.... This sounds like Liberal Fractured Logic to me .... Like the old saying goes .... "You can Vote yourself into Socialism .... BUT .... You will have to fight a War to get out of it ..."
The dipshit typing this article can pound the table and yell "wrong" to every objection, but what she cites as facts are only her opinions and the opinions of all who support this effort to steal the next election.
If popular vote goes through cities states “WILL DICTATE OVER” entire country.
This entire loony idea will work fine...
...until Trump wins the popular vote in 2020 and all those blue states where he lost will need to turn their votes over to him.
Watch how fast they get repealed then.
We’re not a true democracy and we should stop letting them try to tell us we are. The same reasons they rejected that in favor of the electoral college hold today.
ClownHall can stuff it.
The fundamental issue is whether a state can give up its rights in favor of a political mandate. If, as is the case in the current election, the majority of states’ citizens vote for a candidate in a close election and one large state overwhelmingly supports a manifestly unpopular candidate can that unpopular candidate be given the win based solely on the national popular vote. The Constitution says no. Democrats, frustrated with the Electoral College say yes.
Democracy is anathema to our form of government. Any attempt to shift our government from a Republic to a Democracy will result in a socialist government and the end of personal freedom.
Illegals vote in Oregon...
I have long wondered why electoral votes are not split according to the states vote. (I believe some states do this now?)
For instance, in CA, during the last presidential race, roughly 34 electoral votes would have went to Clinton, and 17 would have went to Trump. (Clinton 61.73% to Trump 31.62%)
Seems to me, if these people truly want votes to matter, this is the best way. We need the electoral college, for all the protections it provides, but maybe not having all 55 from CA to go to an individual candidate would be a good idea.
Facts, Not Myths, Back National Popular Vote’s Surge in Popularity
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Massive organized voter fraud, not legitimate concerns, back national popular vote’s surge in popularity.
APRIL FOOL’S STORY BY Rachel Alexander EVERYONE !!!
So, if states can form a compact under the Constitution, can the South, excluding Florida because it’s finished, the Midwest and Mountain States, for their own country and kick both coasts to the sea?
If that happened, I predict the following:
Eastern Washington and Oregon secede and merge with Idaho .... Western Pennsylvania, the western part of Virginia and North Carolina merge with the south ... the southern halves(or more) of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio merge with whoever they can ... most of Michigan bounces to the new country leaving ‘Troit and Dearborn to their own devices ... only wild cards I see are Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona ... outside of the cities, it appears they’re pretty RED.
Let the West coast, East coast and the Northeast fend for themselves. I doubt they last long.
Shouldn’t the title have included either a “satire” or “April fool” warning?
Constitutional or unconstitutional, any state other than New York, Texas or California that goes along with this scheme is really abandoning the right of its residents to ever again have a significant say in the election of the president, and to have their concerns considered and addressed by candidates for the presidency......