[grcuster]

Maine legislature moves to have their “Electoral Vote” go towards the candidate who has the national popular vote. The Democrats working hard to neutralize the Electoral process one state at a time.

[vpintheak]

You pieces of feces cannot override the Constitution. Pound sand, commies.

[HamiltonJay]

These “pacts” will be funny when a Republican wins the popular vote and they have to allocate their electors to a Republican even when the state went for a Democrat.

[chopperk]

No surprise; Dems control the Dominion and Smartmatic vote counting machines.

[lastchance]

Is that even allowed under the Constitution? I just can’t remember where but I believe I have read it would not be.

[M Kehoe]

A: This is nuts
B: It could backfire and bite them in the ass.

Plus it’s unconstitutional, but that doesn’t seem to matter anymore

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[Albion Wilde]

We are not a democracy. We are a republic. Our Founders warned against popular democracy.

It would be a disaster.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEuZrvNYg0

[Lmo56]

Likely unconstitutional. Per SCOTUS:

The right to vote is protected in more than the initial allocation of the franchise. Equal protection applies as well to the manner of its exercise. Having once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another. See, e.g., Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections, 383 U.S. 663, 665 (1966) (“[O]nce the franchise is granted to the electorate, lines may not be drawn which are inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”).

[Republican Wildcat]

where each state in the agreement would assign their Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote

There is no entity which certifies a "national popular vote" - which does not actually exist. It is a statistical tabulation of completely different elections.

Also something else to have your state legislature vote to have your own state's electoral votes not be decided by the votes of the voters of your state, but by the voters in *other* states.

[csn vinnie]

Putting aside that our Founders were brilliant, and these people are moronic political hacks . . . What happens if the popular vote total is close? You would have to recount every state, every county and every precinct in the country. The precincts and counties that went 90-10 are just as important to recount as the ones who went 50-50. With the electoral college, in a close election that is challenged, we only have to recount the states where the vote was close.