This blue-state election compact could
create a constitutional crisis
Posted By: FormerDem, 6/15/2024 9:42:16 PM
Imagine a Jan. 6-style crisis, only this time with serious (as opposed to politically manufactured) disagreements over whether the presidential candidate who won a key state is entitled to its electoral votes. That disturbing scenario just became a little bit more likely — not for the next presidential election but subsequent ones. Without fanfare, Minnesota’s governor signed legislation last month that would award the state’s 10 presidential electors to the national popular-vote winner even if he or she lost Minnesota. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact purports to take effect once states carrying 270 electoral votes (the minimum needed to win the presidency) have agreed to its terms.
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That disturbing scenario just became a little bit more likely — not for the next presidential election but subsequent ones. Without fanfare, Minnesota’s governor signed legislation last month that would award the state’s 10 presidential electors to the national popular-vote winner even if he or she lost Minnesota. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact purports to take effect once states carrying 270 electoral votes (the minimum needed to win the presidency) have agreed to its terms.
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Residents in several cities in the northern part of the country near Syria and central and southern areas heard heavy aerial activity
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Given the rushed circumstances of the decision, she will have very little time to vet them and ensure that they’d work well together.
(Snip)
Here are 10 people she could choose from:
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There is this compact among so far 15 states and DC to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote. It does not come into force this time probably, but who knows. Safe side, vote. And who knows, maybe we can get Trump the moral equivalent of a nationwide sweep showing that by their own rules he wins it all. let's vote...