Posted on 04/12/2007 8:41:31 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The governor of Maryland did Tuesday what the governor of California should have done last fall: sign a bill making his state the first to begin junking the electoral college.
At least, chuck the electoral college as it has evolved. Circumvent the relic, render it moot and elect America's president by popular vote.
The bill makes Maryland the first state to sign an interstate compact that obligates each signatory to cast all its electoral votes for the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote. The compact won't go into effect unless it's signed by enough states to comprise a majority of the electoral college vote.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed an identical bill after studying the measure for, it seemed, about three seconds. "It disregards the will of a majority of Californians," he said in his veto message, pointing out that the state's electoral votes could be awarded to a candidate most Californians didn't favor.
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You disagree with Arnold, you think he should have signed the CA Dem bill abolishing the electoral college?!
Read the bill.
Maryland Enacts Law for Electoral College Change
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/11/124420.shtml
Maryland has become the first state to enact a measure that would circumvent the Electoral College and award the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the most votes nationwide.
Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat who was elected in November, signed the bill on Tuesday. It would not take effect until states that collectively have 270 electoral votes – the minimum needed to win a presidential election – pass similar measures.
As NewsMax reported in September, supporters of the move, called the “Interstate Compact,” seek to nullify the Electoral College without going through the difficult process of amending the U.S. Constitution.
He cannot abolish the electoral college. We both know that.
REad my post 5.
Good luck, wefty limps!!
He's a leftist DemonRAT. He doesn't think, only feels.
I love the electoral college.
They were all against it in 2000, but by 2020, they’ll be hailing its virtues.
It will never happen and that is a great thing. Thank you again Founding Fathers :)
Small states will live to regret changing the current system. However, they have the authority to send their electors however they wish. I don’t think they’re the first, though. Doesn’t Maine apportion their electors by vote? (And someone else, I think...can’t remember the other state.)
Nebraska
2 votes go to the statewide winner and 1 for each Congressional District.
To date neither state has split its votes, but Maine has often come close to a 3-1 split.
The sound would be like the squealing of a million stuck pigs. "The people of Maryland must not be disenfranchised! Repeal this racist law!" It would be sweet beyond belief.
My memory can’t recall anything in the Constitution that requires a winner-take-all system. I don’t know the history of the electoral college in this matter, though.
Did the early republic also have a winner-take-all system?
Any upstanding right leaning citizen of Maryland can and should take this to court. It’s real simple.
Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution.....
“No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation;”
I’m going to assume that means with other states as well. This “first” is clearly unconstitutional. But what else is new with the leftist thinking?
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