Posted on 02/04/2019 11:50:59 PM PST by vannrox
They're going for the gold.
Democrats have started dropping their marbles.
Now we have the Colorado Senate passing a bill to direct their Electoral College delegates to vote for the winner of the National popular vote in Presidential elections !!!!!
It's all part of the efforts called "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" and it's blasting off like a rocket.
Probably unConstitutional but they'll do it anyway and wait for the SCOTUS to decide as they continue the anti-American onslaught of corrupt BS.
Democrats definitely have some screws coming loose as the mental cases mount up in popularity 🤣
Colorado Senate Passes Bill Nixing Electoral College in Favor of Popular Vote
The Democratic-majority Colorado state Senate passed a bill this week that would give the state’s electoral votes in presidential elections to the candidate who wins the popular vote instead of the Electoral College.
Colorado’s Senate passed the bill in a 19-16 vote Tuesday along party lines.
The bill would mandate that the state’s members of the Electoral College vote for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
The appointment of Electors for President and Vice President is an absolute prerogative of the fifty State Legislatures (plus the 3 DC Electors, which the States unwisely awarded to Congress in 1960).
Voting by individuals is not mentioned in the Constitution. It just so happens that all 50 State Legislatures have chosen idiots voting as their method of appointing Electors, but it is not required. If the Colorado Legislature, for example, wanted to choose its Electors by flipping a coin, they would be just as validly appointed as if the voters of Colorado chose them.
So, there is no such thing as a “national popular vote”, No one tallies such a vote, it’s not subject to validation, or to recount, and there is no authority who can certify it.
What Colorado has done is to appoint it’s electors however California, New York, and Illinois do it in any given year.
The popular vote in their state or national... it seems to me that this law takes away a persons vote... what judge would allow this.
This is what happens when your voters are so high all the time that they have no clue how the government works. Toke on morons!
So there is really no need for Coloradoans to vote unless it’s to help democrats with the total overall vote. Colorado is gonzo.
Colorado is now quite blue.
Last Repub the state voted for was Bush in 2004.
State is much bluer now.
So is this moot?
“So, essentially CO is surrendering to the behemoth California...”
Due to migration Colorado has become a wholly owned subsidiary of California.
Hahahahahahaha!!!! Where have you been the last couple of decades?
And then, they will whipsaw back the other way and demand the Electoral College determine the votes.
It is why Leftists should never have their hands anywhere near the levers of power.
“So, essentially CO is surrendering to the behemoth California...”
Due to migration Colorado has become a wholly owned subsidiary of California.
It’s absolutely constitutional. Electors are chosen by each state in a manner determined by the legislature of that state. Where this scheme probably fails is if a state reneges on this scheme. The other states involved would have no legal remedy to force the rogue state to follow it.
Hahaha. This will last until the first time a republican wins the popular vote then they will reverse it
This is govt.educated individuals running things and they have no clue what is constitutional or not.
The states are allowed to allocate their electoral votes as they wish.
As long as the states do not make their decisions dependent on another, it’s legal.
But how does one get an accurate count of the popular vote? Some states don't count every ballot (absentee). When the margin is greater than the unopened ballots, victory is declared and the results are certified.
Dumb unworkable plan, like most Dem brainstorms.
The plan really is to follow this rule when a Democrat wins the popular vote and rescind it if a Republican wins it. The Trump Supreme Court will overrule it as unconstitutional.
They can do anything they damn well please.
They know it, and they will.
This will work until the votes have to go to a Republican.
Then it’ll get repealed.
Legalized cannabis is having its effect in Colorado, generating mass idiocy. I was in Denver recently and could not escape the nasty smell of pot wherever I went. Great state getting less so by the day
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