Disenfranchised? You betcha.
Seems Virginia’s governor and legislature are really concerned with voter disenfranchisement. Unfortunately, they want to perpetuate it.
Virginia will join an interstate compact aimed at awarding the presidency to the winner of the national popular vote after Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed House Bill 965 into law.
HB 965, titled Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote, commits the Commonwealth to joining other participating states and the District of Columbia in awarding their electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most votes nationwide, rather than the winner of the state-by-state Electoral College tally.
In simple terms – should this take effect, if you and all the other voters in Virginia cast your votes for party A’s candidate, but the national popular vote leaves the candidate for party B with a slight majority – your vote is nullified, because Virginia will cast all of its electoral votes for party B REGARDLESS OF WHAT ITS VOTERS CHOOSE. Sadly, this is legal – the Constitution sets up the College of Electors but each state determines how their electoral votes are cast.
This is even worse than the winner-take-all used by 38 states which says “if half our voters plus one more vote for a party, we give that party ALL of our votes.” That is a state-sponsored form of disenfranchising in itself – what SHOULD happen is that if state AAA has 31 electoral votes and splits almost down the middle, one party should get 16 of the electors and the other get 15. Your vote would actually count, unlike, say, Republicans in California and New York, or Democrats in Oklahoma and (hopefully) Texas. Without winner-take all, it would be interesting to see what the last several election’s results would have been?
This idea may be even worse than WTA, though, as it skews any election toward big population centers, which overwhelmingly skew red. Think I read once that essentially, 30 counties in the entire country would control the Presidency – forever. And we wouldn’t even get any Brawndo.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact only becomes operative once participating states collectively control at least 270 electoral votes — enough to secure the presidency. 13NewsNow
Currently, the states and jurisdictions in the compact control 209 electoral votes under the current apportionment, leaving the agreement 61 electoral votes short of activation. Until that threshold is reached, Virginia will continue awarding its electoral votes under the current winner-take-all system.The group noted that similar bills have been introduced in Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada. Fox News
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", 2026 Elections
These are the states who will decide how the rest of us must live as a result of this idiocy. You can add the People’s Republic of Virginia to that map, now.
Not much danger of anything stupid coming from Texas and Florida, but watch out for the rest.
Illinois should be a bit larger than shown.
Closes eyes and crosses fingers: “please be a hilarious ‘in your face’ popular vote thrashing victory by Vance, Rubio, and team in the next election.” Extra icing if it could somehow play out that they would have lost in a straight delivery of EC votes but all the jacking around by the anti-EC crowd made it a yuge win instead.
At this moment in time, a Vance/Rubio would make a great pair.
Alas, Virginia.