National Popular Vote: Making Every Vote Unequal

Inside Sources ^ | February 12, 2019 | Tara Ross

[SunkenCiv]

NPV sounds like an STI, figures it would emanate from California. :^)

[Repeal 16-17]

No Red State will agree to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Also, it’s a proposed compact and so would need Congress to agree to it. Good luck getting it through the Senate.

[george76]

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. ... For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

[C210N]

Electoral College advocates see a window of opportunity to eliminate America’s unique presidential election system.

There is an "Anti-" that should be before "Electoral College advocates".

Big difference!

[sparklite2]

Yeah, I stopped reading at that.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Yeah...that lede made no sense to me either.

[Eagles6]

Yes.

[Jamestown1630]

I wondered about that, too. If you go to the actual article, the ‘anti’ is in there.

We have a perfectly good Constitution, which has served us well for over two centuries; and no other nation has ever accomplished the good in the world that The United States of America have done.

LEAVE THE CONSTITUTION ALONE!

[yesthatjallen]

If California doesn’t submit their votes as mandated by the Constitution their votes will not be counted.

[blueplum]

oh for crying out loud. Majority votes eliminate the minority voice. And majority votes has caused more hatred in the world as the disenfranchised always resort to violence. Which is why our ancestors created the Electoral College - so the voices of overpopulated city-states could never drown out the voices of the less populated non-urban areas.

[Gay State Conservative]

IIRC “interstate compacts” are specifically forbidden by the Constitution unless they're approved by the United States Congress.Although I suspect that there are at least a few such compacts currently operating the only one I know of is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...which controls various bridges,tunnels and transit systems as well as three airports in the “tri state” area.

[MtnClimber]

The voters in Colorado have already been diluted by commiefornia escapees who brought the bad ideas with them. I do not want my vote decided by those who stayed in commiefornia or new York.

[Publius]

There is also the Delaware River Port Authority in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

[MAGAthon]

Sean Hannity just said Rod Rosenstein is to leave his post in mid-March.

10 Feb: CNN: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein expected to leave Justice Department in mid-March
By Laura Jarrett
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave the Justice Department in mid-March, according to a Justice Department official who spoke to CNN Monday.

The official disputed the idea that the timing of Rosenstein’s departure has anything to do with the latest revelations from former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, emphasizing that the plan was always that Rosenstein would help with the transition for his successor and then leave.

CNN has previously reported that Rosenstein was planning to leave his post after Barr was confirmed.
The new deputy attorney general could be announced as early as this week. As CNN has reported, Attorney General Bill Barr has selected Jeffrey Rosen as his deputy.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/18/politics/rod-rosenstein-mid-march/index.html

[Blood of Tyrants]

So no matter how your state votes, the lin=berals get the EC votes.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So no matter how your state votes, the liberals get the EC votes.

[Republican Wildcat]

Why, exactly, would people in a state want to have their own Electors decided by people in OTHER states?

[Alberta's Child]

States participating in NPV cannot tell non-NPV states what to do.

More importantly, states participating in NPV cannot tell NPV states what to do, either. This idiocy is an unenforceable agreement.

Election Day is in early November. The Electoral College vote is held in mid-December. That gives any NPV state 5-6 weeks to have its state legislature change its mind and drop out of the NPV. And that is exactly what will happen in any state where a Republican presidential candidate wins the national popular vote but loses an NPV state.

[lizma2]

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