On March 15, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 19-42, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. Colorado is the first state to pass the bill in 2019. The last state that did so was Connecticut, last year.
On March 15, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 19-42, the National Popular Vote Plan bill. Colorado is the first state to pass the bill in 2019. The last state that did so was Connecticut, last year.
See the bit earlier DE NPV item.
Over 2/3 of the way there and the first purple state.
Way kewl! Who need states anyway?
No state elects its governor with any sort of county-based “electoral college”. Yet it doesn’t follow that counties aren’t important.
COUNTIES FORMED FOR STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT —
SHERIFFS AND CIRCUIT JUDGES — BASED ON YE OLDE ENGLAND — FOR CENTURIES.
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THE 1787 USA CONST IS A LATE DARK AGE DOCUMENT – WITH ITS 3 F-A-T-A-L ANTI-DEMOCRACY GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS
— H. REPS, SENATE, PREZ/VP EC.
SEE THE 750,000 PLUS DEAD IN 1861-1865 CIVIL WAR I
— GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS CONTINUED BY THE PARTY HACKS.
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PR AND APPV
MODERN one person – one vote stuff started in
Gray v Sanders, 372 U.S. 368 (1963) — GA COUNTY UNIT – electoral college type scheme UN-constitutional
MAJOR landmark in Western Civilization.
B-U-T — NOT FOLLOWED UP IN 1964 SCOTUS GERRYMANDER CASES – USA REPS AND STATE LEGISLATURES.
56 YEARS AND COUNTING — see current GA chaos about E-voting devices.
PR AND APPV
It’s not popular among Republican politicians but in opinion polls it is popular among rank and file Republican voters, not as much so as among Democrats and independents/others but still well above water in popularity. The key to breaking into the red states may be the initiative process (an election where the electoral college works out in favor of the Democrats could also have that effect but then heavily Democratic states would probably withdraw).
“No state elects its governor with any sort of county-based “electoral college”. Yet it doesn’t follow that counties aren’t important.”
Good point.
Just WHY ARE counties important again?
In 2016 Wyoming voters had three times as much say in appointing their electors than did voters in Texas. Look up the numbers and do the math yourself if you don’t believe that, but it’s true.
Now, imagine you’re running for office as a state legislator. It’s election day. You go to town hall to cast your vote. You sign in and you’re given your ballot to fill out. Just before you leave the registration desk you see your neighbor Jim being given three ballots. You ask why he gets three ballots, and, the answer is “Well, Jim lives in a more sparsely populated town than you do and we feel we need to make sure the interests of the less populated sections of the state’s towns are not overwhelmed by the more populated sections”.
And with this ridiculous explanation you just shrug your shoulders and move along quietly?
Really?
Do you need to know who Jim is voting for to decide whether it’s fair…democratic?
“No state elects its governor with any sort of county-based “electoral college”. Yet it doesn’t follow that counties aren’t important.” – Richard Winger
How many state governments were formed by counties getting together and agreeing to form a state government? That would be the correct analogy to states and the national government.
CO —
West VA in 1862-1863 in Civil WAR I — with the major help / FORCE of the UNION Army
— for CONTROL of railroad lines from NE/DC to west – for Grant/Sherman UNION armies in 1862-1865.
The preamble to the US Constitution starts off, “We the People of the United States…”. It doesn’t say, “We the states”.
1789 USA regime was created by 9 State regimes in 1787-1788 — Art VII.
Most State conventions used State legislature entrenched gerrymander districts to get Art VII convention delegates.
NO YES/NO popular votes on the subject matter in the States — except
Mar 24, 1788 Voters in Rhode Island overwhelmingly reject the Constitution (2,708–237).
[later 1790 Convention ratified]
Thus — one more regime created by and for the oligarchs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_drafting_and_ratification_of_the_United_States_Constitution
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PR and AppV
The new PPR Electoral College is shaping up to be an important tool for 2020 POTUS candidates like myself and the work adds up in connecting across party lines and between multiple POTUS candidates.
It makes a lot of sense in treating the country as populated regions with predictable needs in every state for organizing.
For example in the ten-county region of Central California we seek five Electors to kick-start the campaign yet names can be recruited from the whole state or nation and the numbers (538-members) seem reachable.
The popular vote might be over 1.5M people but a core of five Electors per POTUS candidate seems fairer and reasonable for communication between the organizers.
Us men with the new United Coalition USA are alternating between male and female electors, from all parties and independents, and so the predictable numbers work perfect with the proportionalities we seek.
The Electoral College is a figure that’s almost identical with the set of Congressional and Senatorial numbers per state and that brings a consistent and rather fair message for US Presidential elections.
“The preamble to the US Constitution starts off, “We the People of the United States…”. It doesn’t say, “We the states”.” ` Richard Winger
Hmmm… did each PERSON have to ratify the Constitution?
C.O. —
Do the DEAD control the LIVING ??? —
ONLY in rotted monarch/oligarch regimes ???
Casual Obsserver –
Hmmm…did only “battleground states” ratify the Constitution?
Hmmm… they ALL did.
Hmmm…and was Delaware given three votes to Pennsylvania’s and Virginia’s one? That’s how the winner-take-all Electoral College works, after all.
Nope
Yyyyyy-up…
• In 2016 about 256,000 people voted in Wyoming, which got three electors – roughly one elector per 85,000 voters.
• About nine million Texans voted, and Texas got 36 electors – roughly one elector per 250,000 voters.
• That’s a three to one disparity.
But I’ll give you this…your “observations” are indeed “casual”.
Just how to you feel about the “unfair” US Senate?