Posted on 04/04/2024 12:46:48 PM PDT by grcuster
Constitutionally, this doesn’t work no matter how clever they think they are. You cannot do ends around the Constitution because if you could, then you’d simply tax guns out of existence or or do the same with ammo or just prohibit ammo from being sold. Any of that is, of course, an infringement and cannot stand. Same with banding states together and awarding their electors based on the popular vote. No one’s paid close attention to this because they haven’t gotten to the number that the States involved have agreed is required to actually kick in this agreement, but we should be making a lot more noise about it and why it’s wrong.
We are a constitutional Republic not a Democracy. The Democrats want us to be a Democracy so all national elections would be decided by Democratic States on the East and West Coast and a few blue states in the middle of the country. Red states would not even to vote then as their votes would then be moot. Come on Republicans, challenge this in court before it’s too late.
The whole “popular vote” agenda is an attempt tyring to avoid the legal route of amending the constitution, which is what is required to abolish the electoral college, and the “popular vote” is a defacto method of trying to do that.
Wonder what they’ll do if a Republican gets the popular vote?
Besides being Unconstitutional on it’s face, how’s this for a problem with the popular vote idea? The state with the largest number of voters, California, now takes weeks to count votes.
The President is the executive officer of the federation of states. It's the states that elect the President to oversee the limited powers that the states delegated to the federal government.
A National Popular Vote, along with the 17th amendment, will kill the concept of sovereign states once and for all.
The whole National Popular Vote compact should be nullified on 14th amendment equal protection grounds. In compact states that voted with the so-called "national popular vote," those voters had their votes count. In compact states that voted against the national popular vote, those voters had their votes discarded.
There is no equal protection across all the states that their votes will be counted the same way.
-PJ
Agree
“ and simply makes sense: electing the president by popular vote,” former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis told the Washington Examiner.”
Actually it makes NO sense since the President is appointed by the States, specifically by the 50 State Legislatures, and this is because to be President requires sufficient consensus among the States to acquire 270 votes.
Why should 75% of the voters in California, Illinois, and New York rule the small states?
IMO it’s a violation of the Constitution for states to enter into any agreement or “compact” (my word) without the consent of Congress. For example,the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is allowed...but only because it was approved by Congress.
This just means that a few national cheat centers will elect the president: KKKalifornia, Chicago and NYC.
The problem would come in if they monkey with the legislative elections in a similar way.
This is ass-backwards. You want to do away with the Electoral College (and totally end the nation BTW), amend The Constitution. Of course Dems can never be bothered with that.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
I like that. Take Illinois. Almost all the counties vote red, except for the ones up in Chicago in the big cities.
The absudity is preposterous.
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is Un-Constitutional, because it subverts the primary purpose of the Electoral College:
For each state to vote as a member of the college of states - a weighted system, so that less populated states have some representation.
That more equitable representation among the states, is of course, in contrast to the wish of the communists and socialists, that the President be chosen by popular vote - leaving California and New York states, plus about three more states, choosing the President.
People have no idea how radical Maine has become. We should ask them to rename the place the Soviet State of Northern Massachusetts.
pesky US Constitution in the way of that liberal unicorn...
The Shut Up, Racist Peasants in the Backwoods Act.
not radical...just has a completely corrupted electoral process
clean up the vote and they’d be MAGA
The Founders knew what they were doing. The KNEW they didn’t want NYC or Philadelhia’s collective population to ramrod over the rest of the country’s and colonies’ interests. It’s the same way today - even worse.
This is a UNION of States, not frigging rat-infested megapopulation crap holes. There are more and values, wants, needs and goals of the entire UNION’s states that are rightly made to be part of the decision fabric in the Electoral College. Doing this is ‘difficult’ states for the Democrats is a mistake and would only result in a small d democratic disaster. This country ends - either on its on by democracy or by Civil War.
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