[stevio]

Wonder what they’ll do if a Republican gets the popular vote?

[Dogbert41]

Thirty million illegal invaders happy to vote Democrat. All the remaining blacks getting hungry for that slave reparations too.

[redangus]

Yeah, the pack lasts until a republican wins and then they’ll all go back to doing it the old way. I want to see a couple of these states go for the democrat and then by law have to assign their delegates to the GOP candidate because of the popular vote. How quickly can you say, “special session of the state legislature”?

[hanamizu]

Wonder what they’ll do if a Republican gets the popular vote?

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Easy enough. Remember this has passed in states where democrats control both the legislatures and the governor. So if a Republican should win the national popular vote but loses in the state, the governor will call the legislature into emergency session and have them pass a law reverting to the old method of determining Electoral votes. You think they won’t?

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.

[fwdude]

I don't see how this changes much. The states joining the NPV movement are pretty reliable blue states, so it's not going to make a difference in an election unless, like you said, the Republican wins the popular vote nationally. They are just assuming that he won't win the popular vote. And, like others responded, they just change it back if the R wins the popular vote.

The problem would come in if they monkey with the legislative elections in a similar way.

[Eleutheria5]

Contest the constitutionality of this law, of course. We can’t have the sacred institution of the Electoral College undermined by the likes of Trump./sarc

[Iron Munro]

Wonder what they’ll do if a Republican gets the popular vote?

They would just open a few more bales of Aeroxed democrat ballots.

[Elsie]

...if you can keep it.

--Ben Franklin