March 7, 2019
Race to the electoral bottom
By John M. Contino
The Electoral College has increasingly come to be regarded as a quaint 18th-century affectation, along the lines of snuff boxes. Colorado is poised to become the 13th signatory to the National Popular Vote initiative, adding to the eleven states plus the District of Colombia that have already signed on to this interstate compact, whereby the electoral votes from these states would be cast in favor of whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote. This bill would take effect when enough states sign on to add up to at least 270 electoral votes. The addition of Colorado's electors will bring that total to 181, or about two thirds there. We may be a few short years away from fundamentally transforming how we elect our presidents.
Although John Adams may have been the first to use the phrase "tyranny of the majority" in 1788, he was by no means alone among the founders in fearing the tyranny of "majority rule" as much as they feared the tyranny of a despot; hence, they founded a constitutional republic as opposed to a pure democracy. Of the thirteen original states that signed the founding documents, the less populated of those would never have agreed to join a union that ceded such lopsided power to the most populous states if presidents were elected from only the popular vote.
Notwithstanding the problems of the disenfranchisement of voters from any state more or less outside California, or the unknown and unquantifiable significance of voter fraud in a close national election, I doubt that any of the above arguments matter a whit to the governors and legislatures of Md., N.J., Hawaii, Ill., Wash., Mass., D.C., Vt., Calif., R.I., N.Y., Conn., and soon to be Colo. Not all of these signatories to the interstate compact are large, populous states, but they all stand united under the care and control of the Democratic Party.
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