Posted on 02/25/2019 12:23:22 PM PST by SMGFan
"The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."
The Governor must have skipped civics classes to think he can with the stroke of a pen change the Constitution of the United States of America.
That may be found in Article 2, Section 1, and the 12th Amendment.
Except not a single red or purple state has passed this.
If blue states had enough electoral votes to ramrod this through, they wouldn't even be bothering, they'd already be winning every election anyway.
Time for Supreme court to shut it down. This needs to be set by an amendment?
We can all discuss this at a convention of states.
a) states do not get to chose who an elector votes for; only how the electors are chosen. My guess is this also makes any "faithless" elector laws unconstitutional. Once an elector is chosen, the elector becomes a Federal official, not a state one, outside the control of the state government.
(b)how is this to be managed? Will they pass a law compelling electors to vote in the Electoral College for the largest national vote recipient? If so, see (a). Or will they choose the delegates after everyone has voted? In which case, can they disenfranchise their own voters? Under the Constitution, the state could have the state legislature pick the electors; but I don't think having an election --and-- picking the electors is kosher.
The Electoral College is a federal function.
I reckon they have to go through the whole amendment process to make it stick.
Where do you get that?
Hinging everything on the popular vote became quite popular with liberals once California wrote ballot harvesting into law. Since California is three hours behind due to time zones, the harvesters get a big jump on how many votes they need to “find”.
This is one of the biggest scams in history.
Exactly. Then the idiot will be talking about ‘the will of the people ‘ meaning his people.
OK. I would like to make an amendment to the Constitution that any elected official who has more money at the end of each term than can be factually attributed to either their savings, investments, or their spouses earnings, has to give all of that money to the government. No exceptions. This is my New Deal.
Is STILL wouldn’t have changed the 2015 presidential results. But it has made Colorado and the other smaller states that passed this, in effect, California’s and New York’s “B^tches”
There won’t be any need for recounts, the Democrat will always win convincingly.
This idiocy is going to last up until the point that a strong third party candidate running from the center-left, say Howard Schultz, results in a Republican winning the popular vote.
"How do we get out of this mess?"
It must not stand.
Do you have anything useful to say?
>>How the electors are then to vote, is not specified by the Constitution. While this seems a spectacularly stupid action by the Colorado legislature, I’m not convinced it’s unconstitutional.
Granted I’m not a lawyer, but I would think it undermines Article IV, Clause 4 that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” if the electors are not allowed to “represent” the voters of the state.
This will be struck down the first time it is tried.
Just what is supposed to be the magic in getting the majority of an artificially aggregated vote?
The idiot is probably an advocate of "diversity," but too dense to realize this is an attempt to sabotage any actual diversity among the Federated partners in the Union!
As for universal suffrage? Allow a dissent:
It seems to me that the biggest problem with this idea
is that there is no “official” count of the popular vote.
Whose popular vote count will these states rely on?
CNN? The New York Times? The Associated Press?
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