Posted on 04/04/2024 12:46:48 PM PDT by grcuster
A new Maine bill was passed by the state legislature on Wednesday that would tie Maine’s Electoral College votes for president to the country’s popular vote.
The bill narrowly passed the state’s lower chamber in a 73-72 vote. It was then approved by the state Senate, and it now heads to the desk of Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME), who has not indicated whether she will sign the legislation. If she does, the state would join a national movement where each state in the agreement would assign their Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
“The Maine legislature’s approval of the NPV bill gets our country one step closer to a goal that already enjoys broad bipartisan support and simply makes sense: electing the president by popular vote,” former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis told the Washington Examiner. “The National Popular Vote plan advances the principle of one-person, one-vote when electing the president. That’s good for every voter, the integrity of our elections, and the health of our democracy. Period.”
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Correction, Maine starts move toward electoral irrelevance.
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
Thanks for posting the real answer to this Democrat driven proposal.
So the Presidential votes in Maine don't count for much, if anything.
This would also have the effect of forcing the Dem that had relied on those one or two blue counties to actually campaign in the red counties.
They would just open a few more bales of Aeroxed democrat ballots.
You pieces of feces cannot override the Constitution. Pound sand, commies.
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.
No surprise; Dems control the Dominion and Smartmatic vote counting machines.
CA will immediately create counties 1”x1”.
Is that even allowed under the Constitution? I just can’t remember where but I believe I have read it would not be.
Thanks.
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
5.56mm
Maine’s Second Congressional District covers 80% of the state...27,000 square miles, the largest district in area east of the Mississippi.
That being said, Maine splits it’s electoral votes.
President Trump won the 2nd district by 10 points in 2016, and by 9 points in 2020. Each time, he won one electoral vote.
This vote by the legislature was a big FU to the Second District.
This whole compact is unconstitutional.
P.S.: Trump is currently leading statewide in Maine by 6 points.
Maine splits it’s electoral votes.
Trump won one electoral vote in 2016 and 2020 when he won Maine’s second congressional district by a wide margin.
We are not a democracy. We are a republic. Our Founders warned against popular democracy.
It would be a disaster.
POLITICAL SYSTEMS 101: Basic Forms of Government Explained [Video 10:34 mins]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEuZrvNYg0
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”).
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.
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.
--Ben Franklin
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