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
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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.
Ditto. I want Vance for eight years, followed by Rubio for another eight. Plus, I want all these Commie and crypto-commie political parties outlawed, including the D-rat one.
Alas, Virginia.
We could have a civil war if that happens said either Eric Ericson or Lars Larson on WFTL 850AM radio yesterday. Was in the recliner in the afternoon and then Lars in the evening and I don’t remember which one mentioned it. Was mentioned that it was also one of the reason that we went to war with England. I hope one of our commentors can get me straightened out if I goofed up on my comment. Later Alltgator..
I have a feeling this would last until the first election that the Republican gets the popular vote. All the states that signed this pact will pass emergency legislation (in Virginia they’d probably frame it as a “temporary” measure) to suspend the agreement and cast their electoral college votes for the other guy.
The rules only apply to Republicans. Democrats can ignore them at will. I think that’s in the Constitution’s Emanations and Penumbras clause.
Considering Trump won the popular vote in 2024, I thought this idea was cast on the ash heap.
Guess not.
But in any event, even if enough states were to sign on to this lunacy, the Constitutional issues would keep it tied up for years, if not decades.
Democrats are fascist assholes!
OUT!!!
Ah, you know left/libtards.
Just wait until the rest of the country is forced into
“ranked choice” by the Democrats.
Maine leads the way having enacted it a couple years ago.
You will have no choice.
Yeah, but Maine would never vote for a real Nazi, you know one with it tattooed on his chest. I mean maybe not tattooed anymore. But he totally didn’t mean it when it was tattooed on there.
I don’t think the guy has a chance, especially in light of
the Swalwell shit show of late.
I’m no constitutional scholar, nor have I played one on TV, and I slept at home last night, so please, someone, tell me how this does not run afoul of the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 10, to wit: “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”
I mean, the word “compact” is right there!
Think since this refers to War Powers it does not apply. There are many interstate agreements and contracts already. Unfortunately, while the Constitution sets UP electors, it leaves to the individual states how to use their electors. Bear in mind that I too am not a scholar. Except maybe of sarcasm?
This is completely wrong. War Powers are a separate issue.
The anti-compact clause comes into play if the power of Federal Government is being undermined. Previously this mostly was challenged in court for various banking and tax schemes cooked up between the states as well as the unhappiness with the Federal Reserve.
The question here is; are they subverted? There is a lot of debate about this and we have a conflict here where the states are allowed to choose electors, but nothing there allows for collusion between the states to subvert the system; which is what they are trying to do.
Keep in mind this whole thing started because the Democrats were unable to get a constitutional amendment off the ground. This makes it a pretty naked attempt to back door it and try to nullify the electoral college. No state has ever made decisions based upon what people outside of their state have voted to do.
At the very least it requires approval of congress to allow this compact. There are a number of other constitutional impacts that aren’t readily apparent until one thinks them through.
I live in Virginia. Spanberger lied through her teeth every time she opened her mouth. It isn’t just this–she and her coven have engineered an end run around the state constitution. Constitution says redistricting must be done by an independent committee. They tried anyway and court said no. VA is right now voting on whether to suspend the Constitution “temporarily” to allow their map. Currently VA has a delegation of 6 D, 5 R. If this goes through best case is 9 D, 2 R. Most likely is 10 D, 1 R. Obama is running an ad talking about “fairness” and stopping Trump from packing the House. Packing the house is apparently only ok if the Dems do it.
I beg to differ. Spanberger ran as a moderate and anyone who was paying attention knew the previous experience she claimed to have and the platform she ran on were all dogshit.
Virginians will get precisely what they voted for. Unfortunately, conservatives will have to suck it up
The redistricting measure that’s up for a vote will also pass because a vast majority of Virginians have already shown they are uninformed morons who will cast a ballot because of “feelings” and their uncured TDS. Conservatives will have to suck that up too… or decide to stick it out or move.
Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudon county voted for this, with a bit of help around Richmond. Basically, the fed employees Gonna learn, though. Boeing has already announced they’re leaving Arlington.
Yeah, and the Norfolk and Suffolk area voted for this too.
Leftists gonna leftist.
I’m no lawyer. I’m no Constitutional scholar. Hell, I’m just a retired high school history teacher who writes a stupid trivia column. But I can predict, with 99% accuracy, the following:
The very first time this “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact” goes into play, it will immediately be challenged legally. The challenge will go all the way to the Supreme Court, which I feel certain would quash the entire thing as unconstitutional from start to finish.
This is nothing but an end run around the Constitution, which sets forth that the STATES elect the President, NOT the people. The states don’t even have to have votes to select their electors; they choose to do so because if the choice turns out to be a bum, they can say that the voters did it. If state governments told the people to stay home and they’d pick the electors, it would be 100% legal and constitutional.
If the left wants to change things, the ONLY way to do so is to amend the Constitution.
Good luck with that.
This is why I don’t vote with anything but my feet.
Not that my vote doesn’t matter, just that it will never matter enough.
Eventually, I’ll run out of land to run to. That will be an ugly and bloody day.