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The End of the Electoral College Is Finally in Sight | Opinion
Newsweak ^ | Apr 19, 2024 | David Faris Associate Professor, Roosevelt University

Posted on 04/19/2024 2:31:03 PM PDT by Baladas

Earlier this week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) decided not to veto an obscure law called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV), which calls for the state's 4 Electoral College votes to be awarded to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationally regardless of the outcome in the state. The law doesn't go into effect, however, until states totaling 270 electoral votes join the compact. That's the number of Electoral College votes required to win the presidency. Once dismissed as an unworkable, almost farcical fantasy, the NPV just tallied its 209th electoral vote with Maine, and now has a clear path to victory. And that means that the Electoral College as we know it might not survive past the 2024 election cycle.

This is incredible news. The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world. It has already malfunctioned twice this century by awarding the presidency to the person who received fewer votes from the American electorate. The 2000 election of George W. Bush, who steered us directly into three distinct catastrophes—the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the Great Recession—sent our new century disastrously off course in ways we are still feeling today. The even-more egregious 2016 elevation of former President Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote more decisively than Bush, resulted in the capture of the Supreme Court by reactionary conservatives for at least a generation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; antirepublic; davidfaris; electoralcollege; farisisacommie; maine
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To: Baladas

No it isn’t


21 posted on 04/19/2024 2:47:08 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: Baladas

No bias at all in that article . / Sarcasm

The author is nuts.


22 posted on 04/19/2024 2:47:28 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Baladas

“This scheme would take a constitutional amendment”

Hate to tell you, but the Constitution is gone. Biden or congress will just dictate it away and the courts will let them do it.


23 posted on 04/19/2024 2:49:25 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Baladas

The end of the Electoral College is the end of the nation, period. After over two hundred years of it being a perfectly acceptable system, suddenly it must be abolished? No and hell no.


24 posted on 04/19/2024 2:49:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: Baladas

So a couple of states will determine who’ll be president?


25 posted on 04/19/2024 2:50:19 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: Baladas
Earlier this week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) decided not to veto an obscure law called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV), which calls for the state's 4 Electoral College votes to be awarded to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationally regardless of the outcome in the state.

So why would Maine voters even bother to vote?!

26 posted on 04/19/2024 2:50:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: Baladas

The Constitution guarantees to each state a republican form of government.

Each state legislature has the power to determine how presidential electors are chosen, but that power must be fundamentally consistent with the existence of a republican form of government.

Divesting a state of its power to participate in presidential elections and purporting to transfer that power to other states (through the so-called national popular vote) is not consistent with a representative form of government, but rather is a despotic abnegation of self-government.

The point of all this for the Democrats of course is that the electoral college serves as a bulwark against voter fraud since the vote is by states. Massive vote fraud in Los Angeles can only swing California. They are tired of having to conduct vote fraud operations in Philly, Milwaukee, Fulton County, Maricopa County and elsewhere when they could accomplish the same thing by doing it just in LA or NYC on a massive scale.


27 posted on 04/19/2024 2:50:52 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Baladas
This is incredible news. The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.

This idiot is a professor?!

28 posted on 04/19/2024 2:51:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: Baladas
This stupid scheme isn’t even enforceable. Nothing prevents a state from changing its electoral voting process in the six-week period between Election Day and the electoral vote verification date in December of an election year.

Which is exactly what would happen if a Republican won the popular vote in an election where a Democrat won a state like Maine. There’s no way in hell Maine would ever let such a thing stand and cast it’s electoral votes for the GOP candidate in that scenario.

29 posted on 04/19/2024 2:51:26 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Baladas

Unconstitutional. I would argue equal protection and I would argue void for vagueness as there is no certifiable NPV.


30 posted on 04/19/2024 2:52:52 PM PDT by jimfree (My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Baladas

“The End of the Electoral College Is Finally in Sight”

Inevitable after the disaster at Appomattox.


31 posted on 04/19/2024 2:53:05 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Baladas
It has already malfunctioned twice this century by awarding the presidency to the person who received fewer votes from the American electorate.

It is not a malfunction - it worked as intended and designed. Every candidate knows you have to win the Electoral College, not the [popular vote! It's like a baseball team complaining they lost the game (i.e. didn't score enough runs) even though they had more hits than the opposition.

32 posted on 04/19/2024 2:53:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: Pox

Can you imagine what this country would become if the Electoral College was deleted and popular vote became the way of the land????


33 posted on 04/19/2024 2:54:33 PM PDT by elpadre (a)
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To: Baladas
Pretending there's still a constitution, folks?

Because Democrats certainly don't think so. Tell them what they are doing is unconstitutional, they will say yo momma is unconstitutional.

34 posted on 04/19/2024 2:55:00 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Baladas

The author must also hate that horrible “undemocratic” body known as the US Senate. You know, it’s that place where each state gets two senators, regardless of the state’s population.


35 posted on 04/19/2024 2:56:07 PM PDT by Restless
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To: rfp1234

One benefit of the electoral college is that it reduces the impact and likelihood of attempts to cheat/rig elections in areas where one party has a huge numerical advantage. For example, if an area is voting 80/20 for Democrats, the outnumbered Republicans will have a hard time preventing the Dems from stuffing a few thousand more illegally-cast ballots into the Smartmatic. Whenever one side has a lopsided majority, it is easier to make the 80/20 split into a 90/10 split. But because of the electoral college, if they try this in New York, it won’t make a bit of difference, they will get the same number of electoral votes if they win 51/49 or if they win 100 percent to zero. Those Founding Fathers were very very smart!


36 posted on 04/19/2024 2:56:08 PM PDT by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: hanamizu

We have seen up front what the electoral college is all about:

With out it, the Pelosi clan in CA will stuff the ballot boxes with unverified mail-in ballots taking the whole country down with them.

This happening will blow the country apart. We have seen a preview of how it happens.


37 posted on 04/19/2024 2:58:22 PM PDT by Devils_Tower (media spin)
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To: Baladas

When DJT wins the popular vote in those states... well, they will repeal those laws.


38 posted on 04/19/2024 2:59:33 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Baladas

This is unconstitutional because it takes the power of representation from the voters of the state and gives the power to some other state.


39 posted on 04/19/2024 3:00:33 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: SkyDancer

The leadership of those areas genuinely think they are smarter that the rest of the country. They think they know what is best for everybody…


40 posted on 04/19/2024 3:00:41 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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