Colorado governor will sign bill aimed at bypassing electoral college

[mystery-ak]

Colorado governor will sign bill aimed at bypassing electoral college
By Reid Wilson - 02/25/19 11:19 AM EST

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) will sign a measure to award his state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, moving a country-wide coalition one step closer to circumventing the electoral college.
 
In an interview Sunday, Polis called the electoral college an “undemocratic relic” of the nation’s past, one he wants to see relegated to the dustbin of history.
 
“I’ve long supported electing the president by who gets the most votes,” Polis told The Hill. “It’s a way to move towards direct election of the president.”
 
Colorado will become the 12th state to join the National Popular Vote interstate compact. Those 12 states and the District of Columbia, which has also passed a popular vote bill, account for 172 electoral votes, just under 98 shy of the 270 votes a presidential candidate needs to win the White House.
 
The compact will not go into effect until the coalition includes states that add up to 270 electoral votes or more. Once it does go into effect, states that are part of the coalition would award their electoral votes en masse to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
 
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/431425-colorado-governor-will-sign-bill-aimed-at-bypassing-electoral-college

[edpc]

The Electoral College is in the Constitution. Good luck getting the required number of states for an amendment.

[bilo]

The compact will not go into effect until the coalition includes states that add up to 270 electoral votes or more. Once it does go into effect, states that are part of the coalition would award their electoral votes en masse to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.

Would this be legal?

[Wingnut]

One thing is certain if "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" ever reaches the 270 electoral vote threshold the signing compact states control...it is going to the SCOTUS.

[jmyrlefuller]

The compact will not go into effect until the coalition includes states that add up to 270 electoral votes or more. Once it does go into effect, states that are part of the coalition would award their electoral votes en masse to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.

Would this be legal?

Only if Congress approves it.

[txradioguy]

The Electoral College is in the Constitution. Good luck getting the required number of states for an amendment.

They know an amendment will never pass...that's why they are doing this end run around the constitution.

[txradioguy]

I can't remember which Article/Section of the Constitution it's in...but there is wording in there to the effect that states can't do what they are attempting to do with this compact.

[Wingnut]

I can't remember which Article/Section of the Constitution it's in...but there is wording in there to the effect that states can't do what they are attempting to do with this compact.

I looked it up but closed the window....

Okay Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which requires each state legislature to define a method to appoint its electors to vote in the Electoral College.

Or

[Wingnut]

OR

Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution states that: "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power

[txradioguy]

OR

Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution states that: "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power

BINGO!  That's the one I read.