On March 1, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee passed SB 841, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. The author is Senator Rob Johnson (R-Kingfisher).
On March 1, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee passed SB 841, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. The author is Senator Rob Johnson (R-Kingfisher).
It moved forward in Oklahoma?! Really?!
A survey of 800 Oklahoma voters conducted on May 5–6, 2009 showed 81% overall support for the idea that the President of the United States should be the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
Voters were asked “How do you think we should elect the President: Should it be the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states, or the current Electoral College system?”
By political affiliation, support for a national popular vote was 75% among Republicans, 84% among Democrats, and 75% among others. By gender, support was 84% among women and 69% among men. By age, support was 84% among 18-29 year olds, 70% among 30-45 year olds, 75% among 46-65 year olds, and 82% for those older than 65.
Oklahoma voters were also asked a 3-way question: “Do you prefer a system where the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states on a nationwide basis is elected President, or one like the one used in Nebraska and Maine where electoral voters are dispensed by Congressional district, or one in which all of the state’s electoral votes would be given to the statewide winner?”
The results of this three-way question were that
* 77% favored a national popular vote,
* 13% favored awarding its electoral votes by congressional district, and
* 10% favored the existing statewide winner-take-all system (i.e., awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most votes statewide).
http://nationalpopularvote.com/pages/polls.php#NC_2008DEC
Were the NPV plan bill to pass in Oklahoma, it would be the first state to adopt it that had voted Republican for President in the 2000 and 2004 elections.
NO uniform definition of Elector-Voter for Prez in the EVIL NPV scheme from Hell.
What is to stop a usual suspect party hack State regime from having children, felons, mentally ill, foreign (friends and even ENEMIES) and even outer space folks voting for a U.S.A. Prez/VP ???
But — this is the New Age of MORONS in all sorts of high and low places — with quick fix schemes for constitutional problems.