By: Dick Morris Tuesday, April 15, 2014
A plan, now stealthily making its way through state legislatures with
astonishing speed, would junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to
the winner of the popular vote. The plan
involves an Interstate Compact where states would commit to select electors
pledged to vote for the national popular vote winner regardless of how their
own state voted. When enough states pass this law -- sufficient to cast the
Electoral College's majority 270 votes -- it will take effect.
The Electoral College will become a vestigial anachronism.
So far, nine states and the District of Columbia -- casting 136 electoral votes
-- have joined moving half way to the 270 needed to put the compact into
effect. The ratifying states are: Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii,
Washington, Massachusetts, DC, Vermont, California, and Rhode Island. Both houses in New York have passed it and
its on Governor Cuomo’s desk.
And, it has already passed one house in: Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon.
These states, plus New York represent 107 votes. Combined with the others they
are up to 242 votes . They need 270.
Who is pushing this?....To Read More…..
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