Last month, both Maine and Nevada did what was in the best interests of their states: They rejected bills that would have enrolled their states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an unwise effort to override the Electoral College.
In Maine, it was killed by legislators in the state House after it passed Maine’s Senate. In Nevada, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak vetoed the bill that had been passed by members of his own party in the Legislature.
The National Popular Vote compact, which is an agreement between states, requires a participating state to award all of its electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes across the nation, not to the candidate who actually won the vote in that state.
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Trying to over ride the Electoral College is a special brand of stupid.
ReplyDeleteIt is a system designed to ensure proper representation of the Republic, making so that no State can have too much control. It is there to ensure balance, and to ensure proper representation.
YES, sometime a person can win the election without a majority of the votes.
Repealing it would be in direct conflict with the founding principles of this great nation.
Without the electoral college we will no longer be a Republic we will have become a Democracy ( mob rule ) just a small step away from a dictatorship.
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