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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
National Popular Vote is based on Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives each state legislature the right to decide how to appoint its own electors.Unable to agree on any particular method for selecting presidential electors, the Founding Fathers left the choice of method... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
Federal law (Title 3, chapter 1, section 6 of the United States Code) requires the states to report the November popular vote numbers (the "canvas") in what is called a "Certificate of Ascertainment." With both the current system and the National Popular Vote bill, all counting, recounting... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
Maine and Nebraska state laws are not "carve outs." There is and was no one preferred method envisioned by the Founders. Unable to agree on any particular method for selecting presidential electors, the Founding Fathers left the choice of method exclusively to the states in Article II, Section... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
Given the historical fact that 95% of the U.S. population in 1790 lived in places of less than 2,500 people, and only a few states let males, with substantial property, vote, it is unlikely that the Founding Fathers were concerned about presidential candidates campaigning and being elected only... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The current winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes is not in the U.S. Constitution. It was not debated at the Constitutional Convention. It is not mentioned in the Federalist Papers. It was not the Founders’ choice. It was used by only three states in 1789, and all three of them... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The constitutional wording does not encourage, discourage, require, or prohibit the use of any particular method for awarding a state's electoral votes. In the nation’s first presidential election in 1789 and second election in 1792, the states employed a wide variety of methods for choosing... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
It does NOT satisfy most people who have studied it. Dividing more states’ electoral votes by congressional district winners would magnify the worst features of the Electoral College system. If the district approach were used nationally, it would be less fair and less accurately reflect the... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The bill does not use a popular vote only. All of the presidential electors from the enacting states will be supporters of the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes among all 50 states (and DC)—thereby guaranteeing that candidate with an Electoral College majority. Every voter... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
Colorado's proposal would not "disqualify their vote." It ensures that every voter is equal, every voter will matter, in every state, in every presidential election, and the candidate with the most votes wins, as in virtually every other election in the country. Every voter, everywhere, for... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The only low population state that enjoys being a swing state has been New Hampshire. The Cook Political Report, as of Jan. 10, 2019, believes “There are just five toss up states, representing 86 electoral votes: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.” The Columbus Dispatch... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
Colorado votes would be included in the national popular vote. The goal would be to get the most popular votes from all 50 states and DC. A successful nationwide presidential campaign of polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits, with every voter equal, would be run the way presidential... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The U.S. Constitution says "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ." The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
State election laws are not identical now nor is there anything in the National Popular Vote compact that would force them to become identical. The bill retains the constitutionally mandated Electoral College and state control of elections, and uses the built-in method that the Constitution... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
“The bottom line is that the electors from those states who cast their ballot for the nationwide vote winner are completely accountable (to the extent that independent agents are ever accountable to anyone) to the people of those states. The National Popular Vote states aren’t delegating their... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
Under National Popular Vote, every voter, everywhere, for every candidate, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election. Every vote would matter equally in the state counts and national count. The vote of every voter in the country (Democrat, Republican, Libertarian... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
In 1789, in the nation's first election, a majority of the states appointed their presidential electors by appointment by the legislature or by the governor and his cabinet, the people had no vote for President in most states, and in states where there was a popular vote, only men who owned a... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The National Popular Vote bill mandates: "Any member state may withdraw from this agreement, except that a withdrawal occurring six months or less before the end of a President’s term shall not become effective until a President or Vice President shall have been qualified to serve the next... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The common nationwide date for meeting of the Electoral College has been set by federal law as the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. In particular, the U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear that the states are expected to make their "final determination" six days before the... -
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Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College
The electors are and will be dedicated party activist supporters of the winning party’s candidate who meet briefly in mid-December to cast their totally predictable rubberstamped votes in accordance with their pre-announced pledges. There have been 24,067 electoral votes cast since presidential...