Posted on 05/07/2018 8:29:42 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Exactly.
*Unless the national popular vote winner is a Republican. Then they’ll find some way to weasel out of this.
So no point voting in presidential elections if you live in CT then. Just let NYC and LA decide!
This does not sound constitutional.
So, in other words, they’re giving their vote to California and New York.
I would sue RIGHT now if I were a CT resident.
Please see #39. Also see #21.
Ewwwww, a big stinkaroony, too.
so why, as a CT voter, vote? The nation votes for you, essentially.
> this will pass constitutional muster <
I’m pretty sure you’re right. The Constitution gives the states great leeway on how their electors are assigned. The “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact” stinks, as it gives too much power to the big states.
But Connecticut votes still get counted, and those votes still have an impact. So the Supreme Court will not interfere.
Ignorant sheep, useful idiots......
Everything the left has done since before WWII has been to move away from a government run by adults (Republic) to a government run by the mob (democracy).
Moving Senate pics to popular vote
Working the “social” in the propaganda inculcation centers (public schools)
Destroying real education in the propaganda inculcation centers (public schools)
More recently,
The cries against the electoral college
Insisting on getting voting franchise for illegal aliens (why they would vote for a system they fled...)
The general lessening of contempt for socialism (enforced communism)
Just dammmmm......
KYPD
I’m wondering if this is even constitutional (Connecticut constitution, that is). It gives up sovereignity. It Counts the votes of voters in other states as relevant at the price of giving up representation of its own voters. i.e. the entire state could vote for candidate A, but if candidate B gets the majority of popular votes in other states, their electors go to candidate B.
That sounds, well, kinda stupid.
There will be no effect on the 2020 election unless more states join the compact before then.
Yep. You said it more concisely than I did.
Totally screws their voters; how stupid. They could get the opposite of who their state voted for.
So they are pissing on their own citizens votes in favor of voters for 49 other States? Sounds kinda ignorant!
By the same logic, they should give up the ability to elect its congress reps and senators as well.
I think it would depend on how it is argued. One could make the case that it disenfranchises the voters who would likely see their votes overriden by this law.
This law will only be in force until it requires them to allocate the EVs to a republican.
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That’s the part that should get them in trouble.
If I remember correctly, it’s up to any state how their electoral college delegate/votes are awarded. Each has their own system.
So this isn’t a problem.
But if they keep changing it after elections hoping to promote or aide a political party, then like gerrymandering, they are in some gray area constitutionally. Are they subverting the best interests of their voters for their political goals?
Seems like someone could sue.
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