The great evil of the Electoral College is that allows the presidential election to be decided by a few swing states. After the primaries the candidates pay no attention to California or New Jersey, because the candidates know they are going to vote Democratic, nor do they pay attention to Utah, Idaho or Texas because the candidates know they are going to vote Republican. Both small and large states are ignored after the primaries unless they are swing states.

Recounts are much less likely to be necessary under the NPV plan – There will always be one or two states with close elections, but nationally, the total will show a clear winner. Florida’s close election would have been irrelevant in 2000, if the NPV plan had been in effect.

The current system is good for the Miami Cubans who hate Castro, because no presidential candidate wants to offend them. That is why we have no diplomatic or trade relations with Cuba, while we trade freely with Communist China. Unless you live in a swing state, you should be in favor of the NPV plan.

Also, if this becomes law in enough states, we will need a national recount, instead of a state recount in order to know who should be Presidient. In a country this large, that would be a harder task and employ more laywers in every state for appeals than the current fiasco in Florida. Why is this better?

I would rather have a proportial electoral vote in each state. At least that would limit the recount issue to a single state and give fairer voting rights.

Also Nebraska and Maine went to district selection of electors fairly recently. And Colorado legislature chose the presidential electors in 1876. All these changes were made without any sort of U.S. constitutional amendment being needed.

I’ve seen many of your posts before and you sure do seem to throw the term “MORON” around a lot, as well as think that everything is so “cut and dried” as they say, in terms of what is right and wrong. May I suggest you remember that most things in life aren’t defined in terms of black and white, but rather painted in shades of gray, and therefore not everyone is a “MORON” (your term) for the actions they may or may not take?

It is a BLATANT EPC violation to permit a minority in a State to allow the State’s Electoral College votes to go to a candidate determined by the votes in other States.

Example —

U.S.A.

X gets 50 Million

Y gets 49 Million
——
In State Z however -

X gets 1.1 Million (part of the 50 Million)

Y gets 4.9 Million (part of the 49 Million)
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With NPV the X candidate gets elected.

The 4.9 Million votes in State Z are totally subverted.

Even the Congress can NOT directly or indirectly allow violations of the Equal Protection Clause — one of the main purposes of the 1866 Congress in putting it into the Constitution.

The NPV conspiracy has lots of MORONS writing its stuff — regardless of how many pages are in it.

The various U.S.A. District Attorneys should be going to court and stopping ALL the NPV machinations — since they are a de facto conspiracy to overthrow the Constitution (Art. I, Sec. 10, para. 3 and 14th Amdt, Sec. 1) — akin to the Slave States secession conspiracy in 1860-1861.

AND even perhaps getting 5th Amdt Grand Juries to INDICT all the NPV MORON conspirators — to stop the NPV conspiracy from getting even worse.

Sorry — NO compact / statutory *quick fixes* for BASIC constitutional stuff.

ONLY constitutional amendments.

Count the election related constitutional amendments — 12, 14 (Sec. 2), 15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27. Duh.

Much too difficult for the NPV constitutional law MORONS to understand.

As Richard stated, the NPV organisation has published an extensive analysis of the legality of their endeavour; give it a read.

The Constitution clearly says that the electors shall be apportioned as the state legislatures will direct. Agreement and/or compact don’t mean this sort of maneuvering.