I think we need to take this seriously. Without the electoral college, the Sarah Palin gambit would fail from the getgo. She and people like her, meaning us, are hated by the urban elites. If the Electoral College is done away with, either by Constitutional Amendment or by this roundabout process, we become the slaves to the bi-coastal elites. The only way the “sleeping bear” that was awakened by the Palin nomination worked was because of the Electoral College system.
Who has standing to bring a lawsuit that could declare these state laws unconstitutional? Or must we wait until the national threshold of however many states doing the same thing (written into these individual state laws) nears? That provision would seem to make clear that it is an end run around the Constitution-amendment process. Can that be challenged now rather than waiting?
I am pretty ignorant on legal issues. But it seems that almost anyone from the affected states should be able to fall under the protection of the federal judiciary.