The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.
Supporters are campaigning, state by state, to get such bills enacted. Once states accounting for a majority of the electoral votes (or 270 of 538) have enacted the laws, the candidate winning the most votes nationally would be assured a majority of Electoral College votes. That would hold true no matter how the other states vote and how their electoral votes are distributed.
Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, and Washington have already approved the legislation, according to the National Popular Vote campaign's website. The new system would only go into effect once a sufficient number of states have passed laws that would make it work. . . . . READ MORE >>>>
Editor's notes: not to worry --- 3/4 of the States need to ratify such a change not to mention a 2/3 vote in each house of Congress. Ain't going to happen. Without the Electoral College, candidates would campaign in the 20 largest population centers in this nation and the election would be won in that fashion. Without the Electoral College, it would be just a matter of time before certain states in the union and whole population centers would no longer matter when it came time to choose a president.
Understand that ours is not a "democracy." It is a representative republic. Democracies do not represent the will of the minority because the minority, by definition, never wins an election. Socialist leaders always tout the benefits of "democracy" because in a democracy, the opportunity for social revolution is most effectively presented. The majority rules the minority and, in time, the majority gives it power over to a leadership that only cares for itself -- ala, Iran, N Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and any number of countries within Africa.
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