The Oregon legislature is adjourning for the year on March 3. Among the bills that failed to pass are the National Popular Vote Plan bill, and a bill to require presidential candidates to reveal their income tax returns.
There is a fair chance that the National Popular Vote Plan bill will pass in Connecticut soon.
Abolish the gerrymander USA EC and USA Senate.
Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the USA.
PR and AppV
Earth Day Humanitarian Project Update
http://international-parliament.org/ucc.html
IP Senator James LeSage (Humanitarian), is making assurances that he will be there on Earth Day as a second group of musicians, stage builders, and that he will bring a chior and parade.
Earth Day is in less than 60 days and we are all starting to work on the IP Senate Chamber humanitarian project.
The new International Parliament is a fine example for the use of pure proportional representation PPR on seven simultaneous geographic political levels.
I wonder what would happen if the NPV plan goes through, but then due to a change in party one state leaves. Would all the other states automatically revert back or would they each have to pass a new law?
Richard Winger,thanks so much for the post.Really thank you! Great.
Good.
Such an idea is nothing but a backroom attempt to abolish the Electoral College without having to pass a constitutional amendment.
Bob.. Actually it’s the state’s being allowed to allocate their electors however they see fit. Nothing in the constitution mandates a winner take all system like we have now. In fact, the state legislatures can get rid of the popular election and appoint the electors themselves.
NPV — blatant attempted subversion of EPC in 14 Amdt, Sec. 1 —
having *internal* election results depend on *external* election results
Internal
A 1 [the Prez candidate]
B 10,000,000 [who detect that *A* is the Anti-Christ of evil]
External
A 70,000.000
B 60,000,000
Total
A 70,000,001
B 70,000,000
[after a zillion recounts and State/Fed court cases 24/7 for weeks/months after the election day)
Folks can add 12th Amdt ECV estimates.
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See 14 Amdt, Sec. 2 — if 12th Amdt Prez/VP electors are NOT elected.
Right to vote *denied* / *abridged* ???
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Electing a Prez/VP AIN’T something inter-State compact trivial —
regardless of the usual suspect constitutional law MORONS.
https://ia801408.us.archive.org/27/items/journalofjointco03unit/journalofjointco03unit.pdf
Journal of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
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Major chaos in getting the 14th Amdt proposed —
after MANY defeats of Secs 1-4 separately.
NOT shown in the journal — the infamous 1865-1866 Black Codes of the ex-rebel regimes to keep blacks in a de facto state of slavery – having minimal *civil* rights and NO *political* rights.
IE the 14th Amdt was a last chance to prevent the Civil War from resuming.
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After the major Elephant win in 1866 election — the various Reconstruction Acts and later 15th Amdt.
@ Brandon: Interesting thought. I would presume that if any state left the compact, there would be an insufficient number of electoral votes remaining to make a majority. Thus, it would be up to the remaining states whether to observe the pact among themselves, or withdraw as well.
Here’s another question related to NPV — is a participating state bound to whichever candidate wins the most votes nationally, or does the compact require a candidate to receive an outright majority of the popular vote to trigger its provisions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
Just about ALL political stuff now has a wiki.