Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin says he will sign SB 31 on Friday, April 25. That will make Vermont the seventh state to have passed the plan. See this story.
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin says he will sign SB 31 on Friday, April 25. That will make Vermont the seventh state to have passed the plan. See this story.
C’mon EC fans…let the belly-aching begin.
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NO national uniform definition of Elector-Voter in the NPV SCHEME from Hell.
How many Foreign nation-state enemies will be voting for Prez/VP in the usual suspect States/DC if the NPV scheme somehow takes effect ???
i.e. those enemy hoards in various enemy regimes.
Blah, blah, blah…yadda, yadda, yadda…HOARDS…enemy regimes….foreign cookie salesman and toy boats…SCHEMES…birds eating seeds…blargh, blargh, blargh…PREZ/PRES/PREZ…VIP…VIP…VIPER…SSSSS…slither, slither, slither….AAAARRRGGGGHHHHH…me no likey NPV…VERY SCARED…IE, ie, i.e., id est, that is….EG, eg, e.g., for example…HOARDS!!!!!…..AAAARRRGGGHHH…..
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A prime argument against the NPV plan is that we shouldn’t tinker with the work of the Founding Fathers. That’s ironic, since what the Founding Fathers did in the Constitutional Convention was to replace the Articles of Confederation – in other words, change the manner in which the people of the United States would govern themselves. Furthermore, the essential change in the form of government that was negotiated, and nearly scuttled the Convention, was proportional representation in the Legislature. Delegates from a few small states, Delaware in particular, had been instructed to leave the Convention if anything but a “one state one vote” system were to be accepted. Small states eventually compromised and accepted proportional representation in the House, but held firm for stronger influence in the Senate.
So the Founding Fathers evidently had no special problem with “tinkering.”
And they could also read plain English. No one who can do so could read the text of the Constitution which establishes the Electoral College and conclude that
the NPV scheme is not perfectly consistent with the language of the Constitution. State legislatures can allocate their Electors in whatever manner they may choose. That’s the system the FF’s put in place, and NPV is perfectly consistent with it.
All the “bellyaching” you hear here about the NPV scheme is Republican fear of losing what they perceive as a game currently rigged in their favor.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
#4 Very cute. Must have been hours of work.
How many ANTI-Democracy juvenile MORONS are on this list ???
Each party hack robot Prez has been de facto elected with about 30 percent of the popular votes in about 3/5 of the States/DC since 1832.
The votes in losing States have been worthless.
*Most* of the time the winner has gotten a popular votes majority – but with the growing political rot more minority popular vote winners are happening – Clinton 1992, Bush II 2000.
The powermad 52 percent winners are claiming 100 percent mandates to be dictator-emperors.
About 10 battleground E.C. gerrymander States since about 1948.
For NON-Morons —
REAL Remedy — Const Amdt —
Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the U.S.A.
Equal nominating petitions
P.R. legislative
Nonpartisan App.V. executive/judicial
The Union will survive.
All gerrymanders to the political history graveyard — including the Electoral College.
BUT will Civil WAR II happen due to the ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander math in 2012 ??? Stay tuned.
NO limit on the EVIL in the so-called brains of New Age powermad fanatics — leftwing or rightwing.
Juvenile morons can go play in a sandbox in their backyards.