... and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;The reasonable person has to assume that if the Electors were to "seal" the votes, this means it was meant to be kept secret until revealed at a joint session of Congress.The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
Why seal the votes if the state was to have an oversight on the results and a chance to negate? How could the state punish faithless Electors after the votes were revealed to a joint session of Congress at least a month later?
This brings up the question of the National Popular Vote compact. The Compact says that the state awards the Electoral Votes to the winner of the national popular vote. However, the votes are not the states' to award, they are the property of the Electors. The state only has the power to select the method of choosing Electors, not the result of their votes. This judge ruled that the state cannot tell the Elector how to vote.
The thrust of the last round of debate was that the Electors had to honor the wishes of the voters who voted for them. What are Electors to do in an NPV state that voted for the losing candidate? Are the Electors to follow the wishes of the state and vote for the national popular vote winner and become faithless to the voters, or are they to vote the wishes of the voters who voted for them and become faithless to the state?
-PJ
The NPV has nothing to do with what the Founders intended.
Lots of Constitutional points against it that have nothting to do with our Founders intent.