Posted on 05/07/2018 12:32:28 PM PDT by onona
Connecticut state Senate passes bill giving electoral votes to presidential candidate who wins popular vote (FULL TITLE)
The Connecticut state Senate on Saturday voted in favor of a measure to give the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
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Constitutional?
Doesn’t matter. It’s just going to sit there.
That one day a Dem is going to be really pissed becasue they won all the blue states but lost the popular vote and all their blue states flipped red due to this Democrat pushed idea.
Watch it backfire against leftists big time in the very near future.
Deliberately giving away your rights. Giving them to somebody else.
Did the lawmakers get a bowl of red stew? Anything?
How can they do that? That’s part of the constitution..... oooooohhhhh yah Connecticut.
Never mind.
Sure. Why not? May not turn out to be popular though if it leads to a Republican landslide someday because all the Blue States have committed their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. Wait until the first time that it actually changes who gets the votes to see how popular it actually is.
I would think not, because while the Constitution does not specify how the electors in a given state are to determine to which candidate they award their votes, to do so according to a national popular vote tally would undermine the very intent of the Electoral College. I would think there would be a federal preemption argument there, but I’m not an attorney.
No worries... there’s no chance of a GOP candidate taking that state anyway.
“Constitutional?”
Yep =>
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress:”
Art II, Sec I
Here is the passage from The U.S. Constitution concerning The Electoral College. You d3ecide:
Section. 1. Clause 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Clause 2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Clause 3: The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall choose from them by Ballot the Vice President.
Clause 4: The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Deliberately giving away your rights. Giving them to somebody else.
Did the lawmakers get a bowl of red stew? Anything?
30 pieces of silver, is what I hear...
I can see a bjg political downy brook coming over this.
Wait until Trump wins the popular vote and gets Connecticut’s electors.
...to do so according to a national popular vote tally would undermine the very intent of the Electoral College...
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This seems like the problem here for them. You can pick your delegates however you want, but can you really send your electoral college votes away to the candidate that lost in your state based on factors outside your state, nullifying the enfranchisement of your state’s voters?
This is clearly an attempt to subvert the purpose of the electoral college, which was to keep small population states from having insignificant influence on an election and their people not getting representation.
Since we are making our own rules, I am going to petition my state to declare their electoral college votes to be tripled whenever any other state does not properly use their electoral college votes
Yep it's pretty bad there, they taxed GE hdqtrs out to Boston, that's bad.
The compact needs to be assented to by a number of states totaling 270 electoral votes before it goes into force.
In the highly unlikely event a Republican won both the popular and the electoral vote, the Democrats would withdraw from the compact.
CT isn’t going GOP in our lifetime. This is simply liberal virtue-signaling.
Sure, by that standard the States can send in the electors for the person who came in last place in the state election.
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