Posted on 04/04/2024 12:46:48 PM PDT by grcuster
A new Maine bill was passed by the state legislature on Wednesday that would tie Maine’s Electoral College votes for president to the country’s popular vote.
The bill narrowly passed the state’s lower chamber in a 73-72 vote. It was then approved by the state Senate, and it now heads to the desk of Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME), who has not indicated whether she will sign the legislation. If she does, the state would join a national movement where each state in the agreement would assign their Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
“The Maine legislature’s approval of the NPV bill gets our country one step closer to a goal that already enjoys broad bipartisan support and simply makes sense: electing the president by popular vote,” former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis told the Washington Examiner. “The National Popular Vote plan advances the principle of one-person, one-vote when electing the president. That’s good for every voter, the integrity of our elections, and the health of our democracy. Period.”
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Folks, this is a canary in the coal mine.
Republicans need to get these laws repealed in the states that have passed them.
No one should have their presidential vote nullified just because Los Angeles county votes for the Democrat party.
Stupid move, for sure.
Minimize even further the value of individual voters in your state. Yup, that’s a recipe for success...
Mob rule, democracy in its pure form
“ It may drag the results out, though.”
Anyone not expecting this thing to go into March, a year from now, will be disappointed
The 12th doesn’t change anything that would effect this. All it means is the electors vote for 1 guy for each office instead of 2. It doesn’t change anything about how electors are selected, which is basically at the state legislatures discretion. Could be votes of the people in the state, divided any way they want, could be direct appointment, could be the weather in Bogota. Or could be the results of the national popular vote. All the 12th changes is the instructions those electors are given, now WHY they get those instructions.
Nasty pieces of excrement. I watched video where 2 dims who voted against it the first time were told to go take a walk outside when the second vote came up so it would pass.
Ideology is more important than sovereignty or survival.
Yawn. When one single state that voted for Trump in 2016/2020 passes this, let me know, meanwhile it’s just low-hanging fruit states, of which the movement for this Compact is rapidly running out of.
The people of Maine have lost their power. This is unconstitutional, btw.
I’d prefer that we do it on a congressional district basis.
For example, Minnesota has eight congressional districts.
Even in bad GOP years, the Presidential candidate will win at least 2-3 districts.
One electoral vote for the winner of each district plus one vote for the overall winner in the state.
Instead of being swept every four years, the GOP Presidential candidate can actually walk away with something rather than nothing.
The same would happen in states like Virginia or Washington state.
Besides, I think it will be VERY easy to manipulate that kind of vote.
Yeah, the pack lasts until a republican wins and then they’ll all go back to doing it the old way. I want to see a couple of these states go for the democrat and then by law have to assign their delegates to the GOP candidate because of the popular vote. How quickly can you say, “special session of the state legislature”?
Maine moves to join Democratic-led pact to create election interference and collusion to win an election by any means possible...
There-—fixed the title.
Man, these people are stupid.
NY-—FLA-—CALIF-—Ill—Tex would be doing all the electing.
47 states would not count for anything
Or congressional districts. Each district awards one electoral vote and the states popular vote determines the two senator votes. Put every congressional district and state in play. In that way democrats can’t just cater to the big cities.
Of course, none of that matters if the democrats get to count the votes until they win.
How can one state ignore their residents vote results to other states to decide for them.
Once again, we have neoCON “Republican” traitors helping pass garbage like this so that NYC and Chicago and LA can stuff the ballot box full of millions of fraudulent votes and we all have to suffer.
” I think it will be VERY easy to manipulate that kind of vote.”
I think that’s the point.
So Maine wants to be politically irrelevant and ignored by all future federal governments.
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