This is getting no coverage but there is a move to quietly reform the Electoral College. It is called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
This agreement would bind the states that have joined it into awarding their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. As of now, five states have made it a law, giving them 61 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate the compact. Bills have been introduced in all states with some for multiple years.
Once this compact takes effect, a smaller state will effectively be overuled by a more populated state. The less populated state may vote for one candidate but will be required to award their electoral votes to the candidate who was rejected by the voters in that state.
Remember the 2000 Presidential Election? This is the election that Democrats point to as proof we need to change the process. George W. Bush defeated Al Gore with 271 electoral votes to 266 for Gore. Al Gore won the popular vote with 50, 999,897 votes to 50,456,002 votes for Bush. However, Bush won the popular vote in 30 states while Gore only won in 20 states plus D.C. If you go by the 3,111 counties in the nation, Bush won 2,434 counties to Gore’s 677 counties. Now remember that Gore got more votes nationally.
This tells the story in more detail.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/election2000.htm
If this takes effect, the majority of the nation will be left out in the cold. Our large cities, which usually vote for the Democrat candidate, will effectively negate the votes of millions of hard working Americans.
Take the combined population of Los Angeles (3,694,820), New York (8,008,278), and Chicago (2,896,016). Together at the 2000 census their population totaled 14,599,114. This is more than the combined populations of Kentucky (4,041,769), Colorado (4,301,261), West Virginia (1,808,344), Rhode Island (1,048,319), South Dakota (754,844), Montana (902,195), North Dakota (642,200), and Deleware (783,600), total 14,282,532. Just three cities could potentially cancel out eight states. These 8 states have 38 electoral votes. The three states containing these three cities have 107 electoral votes. If these 3 states control their votes plus the 8 states votes, that would give them 145 electoral votes, over half of what is needed. Eleven states out of fifty.
Yes, votes could go in any direction but the implications of this is clear. No longer would every vote count as supporters claim. What would happen is large, mainly liberal- leaning, cities would control who would be the President of the United States. Everyone who is in the heartland will be left out, but at least we will have still been able to vote. Don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm confused here
scarlos (Diary) Wednesday, May 20th at 7:21PM EST (link)The popular vote compact, which only goes into effect if states representing 271 electoral votes agree on it, would effectively backdoor the Electoral College out of relevance. It mandates that each state who agreed to it dedicate their electoral votes the the candidate who wins a majority of the popular vote, so when 271 votes sign on, the person who wins the popular vote automatically wins the presidency, regardless of state-wide distribution.
How is this “Deciding someone else’s vote”? Your state’s votes would automatically go to the candidate who ALREADY WON.
The bigger worry with this is that it could greatly increase ACRON voter fraud, as racking up “voters” in New York and Los Angeles would then actually have an impact on the election outcome.
Socialism is Oligarchy in disguise
Right about fraud
Lloyd Davis (Diary) Wednesday, May 20th at 8:05PM EST (link)Yes the potential for fraud is tremendous. ACORN and other groups have shown the ability to “manufacture” votes. The early voting of the past election cycle made this easy.
The compact doesn’t take effect until states whose electoral vote total 270 sign on. Once this happens, the voters of the smaller states in the compact will be out voted by the larger ones in the compact.
Suppose you live in a small state that is in this compact. The voters of your state vote overwhelmingly for one candidate by a 3 to 1 margin. The problem is that your votes couldl end up going to the candidate that your state rejected. If California and New York are part of the compact, their large populations could effectively sway the election by controlling where other states electoral votes go, regardless of what the voters say in those states. The smaller population states would effectively have no say. There would be no choice.
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
Remember the process
Lloyd Davis (Diary) Wednesday, May 20th at 8:21PM EST (link)The people vote in November. The result of this is the slate of Electors cast votes in December. That is when the President is elected. This would make the November election almost meaningless. The large cities would be the only ones who would need to vote. We would be required to follow them.
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
We should let California and New York try it for a few cycles
bk (Diary) Wednesday, May 20th at 8:07PM EST (link)and we’ll see how it works out.
The libs would call it a success just
Lloyd Davis (Diary) Wednesday, May 20th at 8:41PM EST (link)like they called the DC voucher program a failure.
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln