Maine Senate passes bill giving state's electoral votes to national popular vote winner

[dudmuck]

This interstate compact is so blatantly unconstitutional that it won't survive the first challenge. It's too bad the Democrats think our Constitution is just a roll of toilet paper to be shat upon.

explicit congressional consent of interstate compacts is not required for agreements "which the United States can have no possible objection or have any interest in interfering with," but that explicit congressional consent of interstate compacts is required when the underlying compact is "directed to the formation of any combination tending to the increase of political power in the States, which may encroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States" meaning where the vertical balance of power between the federal government and state governments is altered in favor of state governments.

Read here.

 

[BlindBoo]

This interstate compact is so blatantly unconstitutional that it won't survive the first challenge.

Based on what?

 

[Third Party]

Sounds to me like a perverted form of voter suppression....no matter how the state votes its legislature gives its electoral votes to the person who at the end of voting wins the popular vote throughout the entire country....also sounds like a strong SCOTUS issue!

Maine's lawmakers passed a bill that would give the state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who won the national popular vote, taking a step toward becoming the 15th state to enact such a law. The Maine Senate voted 19-16 Tuesday to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would give all committed states' electoral votes to the winning popular vote candidate should the group accrue the 270 votes necessary for a majority.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington state and the District of Columbia have all committed to the pact. The most recent addition, New Mexico, put the total at 189 electoral votes....I believe those listed states are all DeathRAT controlled states!

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Is this legal?

 

[Hutch Starskey]

That is called electoral fraud, dope.

No it is not.

If they certified the right results, but disclosed ridiculous numbers, the result was still the same. No other state can have an interest in the results within a particular state.



This will end up in litigation and the SCOTUS will get involved.

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That is the vey definition of fraud, dope.