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s It Time For Conservatives To Support A National Popular Vote?
Townhall.com ^ | April 19, 2021 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 04/19/2021 4:15:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

NO!

The EC was put in place for a reason. And the founders have been shown, time and time again, to have known what they were doing.


21 posted on 04/19/2021 4:35:38 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Kaslin

Popular vote is BS. It is anti-Constitutional and anti-American.


22 posted on 04/19/2021 4:36:22 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: Kaslin

“The presidential election is a national event, and it seems like it should be treated as such.”

What is this guy, 12 years old?


23 posted on 04/19/2021 4:37:06 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Kaslin

Wow. Did you know...

“Yes, President Joe Biden won the popular vote by 7 million votes, but he also won the Electoral College 306-232”


24 posted on 04/19/2021 4:37:35 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: Kaslin

no


25 posted on 04/19/2021 4:39:50 AM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: Kaslin

NEVER. And while it’s fresh in our minds, repeal the 17th


26 posted on 04/19/2021 4:41:25 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Sparky1776

Correct. It would greatly increase cheating in dimocrat area


27 posted on 04/19/2021 4:47:00 AM PDT by Josa
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To: Kaslin

The EC and 2nd Amendment are the only things keeping America from being a mob-ruled society!

Removal of either of these would be the last step to our ultimate demise as a “civil” society!

No! NO! H@LL NO!


28 posted on 04/19/2021 4:52:44 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: Kaslin
Georgia and Arizona have ‘officially’ turned purple.

In the case of Arizona it is because of mail in voting. RATs have been stealing it since then. They have been fighting tooth and nail to prevent an audit of the last election .They know it will crumble their whole damn crime syndicate after it proves just how EVIL they truly are.

29 posted on 04/19/2021 4:53:39 AM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V!)
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To: Kaslin

This is the dumbest article I’ve ever seen town hall publish, and I’ve seen them publish some dumb ones. Since the author asked, here’s why it’s a bad idea:

1) Voter fraud, which has become a primary concern for folks on the right in elections, will be incentivized by NPV. This does nothing to ensure that one citizen, one vote, one time is adhered to, and it opens the doors to so much confusion and standing issues that it would make legal challenges impossible.

2) even if voter fraud isn’t a thing, as Dems long claim it isn’t, the last election was a prime case study why nationalizing elections is bad. Dems leveraged high population areas with leaning on judges, tweaking rules, and selectively applying regulations to favor Dem concentration areas and “help” turnout in areas where it meant the most to turn a national election. Republicans, typically, were unprepared and unable to stop it. If NPV passes, Dems won’t have to play these games in areas where they may get caught, they’ll do it in NYC, LA and Chicago where a republican won’t even be able to get within 50 feet of a courthouse to challenge an election twisting rule.

3) Republicans haven’t won any of the territory back on the legal front they’d need to even be competitive at the national level in an NPV scenario. They’d be starting from behind with challenging voter roles, ballot collection and curing rules, etc...

4) since republicans have long ago ceded blue areas to the Dems outright, or in places like Philly ceded challenges to outright Dem control in favor of patronage carveouts to keep them fat and happy, they have a structural disadvantage to be competitive in urban areas for an NPV. It doesn’t mean they can’t compete, it means they’d have to get staff and supporters in higher density population areas in place and able to work effectively first. If they don’t want to do that now, they’re not going to suddenly start.

5) the Dems have been dishonestly pushing this idea for years. Dishonestly. They’re not going to earnestly help out republican concerns now.


30 posted on 04/19/2021 4:55:39 AM PDT by jz638
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To: Kaslin

Never !


31 posted on 04/19/2021 4:56:28 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Kaslin

Simple answer. NO

Hell No


32 posted on 04/19/2021 4:58:34 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Candor7
Townhall has really gone downhill lately.
33 posted on 04/19/2021 5:01:04 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Kaslin

“...particularly given the results of the last election. Yes, President Joe Biden won the popular vote by 7 million votes, but he also won the Electoral College 306-232, a margin former President Donald Trump considered a “massive landslide victory” even as he lost the popular vote in 2016.”

Assuming anyone with two functioning brain cells actually believes the last election was legitimate.

Myself and almost 80,000,000 Americans do not.


34 posted on 04/19/2021 5:05:08 AM PDT by billyboy15 (')
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To: Kaslin

Morefield is as fool. He questions a brilliant constitutional concept in terms of whether or not it will benefit a political party.

I won’t be reading his “work” any more.


35 posted on 04/19/2021 5:11:54 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: cranked

How long did it take to write this crap?


36 posted on 04/19/2021 5:15:12 AM PDT by abbastanza
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To: Candor7
We finally found those missing Trump ballots!


37 posted on 04/19/2021 5:21:56 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

Barf alert?


38 posted on 04/19/2021 5:36:48 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Kaslin

No and Hell no


39 posted on 04/19/2021 5:37:12 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God")
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To: Kaslin
Hell, what have we got to lose?

The Constitution and our entire system of limited gummint?

40 posted on 04/19/2021 5:42:51 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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