bmac32 wrote:
Several “blue” states are conspiring to circumvent the E*******l College by means of the “National Popular V**e Interstate Compact” initiative. These states will award all their E*******l v**es to the candidate who wins the majority of the so-called “popular v**e”.
The “National Popular V**e Interstate Compact” initiative is a very dangerous project. It attempts to bypass Constitutional protections against some forms of e******n f***d. In particular, it facilitates propagation of the ill effects of the e******n f***d in one or more states into other, fraud-free, states. If implemented, it can sink the ship America (figuratively speaking), as the example below explains.
A typical ship has bulkheads that subdivide its hull into several water-tight compartments. Such construction is supposed to prevent the sinking of the ship should the hull get locally damaged, as the bulkheads stop ocean water from seeping from the damaged compartment into undamaged compartments. As a result, the ship stays buoyant despite having a hole in its hull.
Removing the bulkheads creates a risk that a single hole in the ship’s hull may lead to sinking of the entire ship.
And that is, figuratively speaking, the main objective of the Left’s movement that attempts to dispose of the E*******l College in P**********l e******ns and replace it with the so-called “popular v**e”.
Without the E*******l College, massive e******n f***d (e.g., b****t box stuffing, v**e harvesting, non-citizen v****g, re-counting until the desired outcome is met, etc.) in two most populous states (say, California and New York) may easily, if facilitated aggressively by these states, decide the outcomes of any P**********l e******ns.
For one, it is much easier to execute a decisive e******n f***d in the “popular v**e” system then it is with the E*******l College in place. Just imagine, California delivering 40 million v**es (one v**e for one California resident) and New York 20 million v**es (one v**e for one New York resident), for a total of 60 millions v**es, in favor of the Left’s desired candidate. If that happens, in the absence of the E*******l College, v**ers in other states don’t need to v**e, as it is extremely unlikely that they can summon more than 60 million v**es for somebody else. (With the E*******l College, California and New York would produce just 84 e*******l v**es out of the total of 538 e*******l v**es, far less than needed to control the outcome of the e******n.)
Even if after such an e******n the Supreme Court objected to the idea that a state could deliver the number of v**es that is about equal to the number of its residents (mind you that in the past P**********l e******n, several counties in California delivered more v**es than they had adult residents), the “fix” for such a “detail” would be easy. Both California and New York, via “sanctuary” state laws and policies and such, would open themselves to mass illegal migration that would swell their populations to the point where a legal objection to their 60 million v**es in favor of the same candidate was no longer defensible.
Of course, this kind of “popular e******n” process would sink the ship America, and likely turn our great Republic onto something that resembled more the People’s Republic of China, Syria, Venezuela, or any other country that was a major feeder of current mass “migration” (legal and otherwise), with equally massive redistribution of incomes and property to follow.
This is why the Left and their pet minorities are vigorously pushing for disposing or bypassing of the E*******l College. They see the College as a serious obstacle in their well-concerted efforts of hostile takeover of the U.S. and the 20 trillion+ economy that comes with it.
It is good to remember that what the properly functioning E*******l College does, is - among other things - to stop propagation of e******n f***d, very much the same way like the bulkheads in a ship are to stop propagation of seeping ocean water within the damaged ship’s hull. The sad story of sinking of the RMS Titanic teaches us what is likely to happen to our country once these means of protection are rendered dysfunctional.
RMS Titanic
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Most states already give the v**es to the person who get the most v**es right now with the exception of Maine and Nebraska. There were several e******ns before and including the 2000 e******n results started to bring questions about the wisdom of the college. To many of the results were made directly according to what the e*******l members wanted. It was always invisioned that college was expected to give its v**es to the popular winner but it was not required. According to the results of the 2000 e******n between Romy and Obama the college v**ed against the popular v**e in Arizona. If that tread had kept up throughout the college , the president would be elected by a handful of citizens.