Democratic effort to subvert the Electoral College plows into immovable GOP wall

[mystery-ak]

Democratic effort to subvert the Electoral College plows into immovable GOP wall
by David M. Drucker
 | March 29, 2019 12:11 AM



An effort led by Democrats to scrap or bypass the Electoral College and shift presidential elections to contests decided by the national popular vote has almost no chance of succeeding, guaranteeing Democrats will again have to defeat Trump in the Electoral College they lost in 2016 while winning more votes nationally.

The Electoral College places the power to elect presidents in the hands of individual states and is enshrined in the Constitution.

The hurdles to amend the Constitution and move to the national popular vote are steep. So the bipartisan National Popular Vote interstate compact seeks to subvert this constitutional shield by convincing states to throw their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of which candidate wins their state. Compact supporters believe this doesn't require amending the Constitution, but that notion would be challenged in the courts.

But the effort has run into another problem — stiff political resistance from Republicans, who lately see the Electoral College as possibly their only viable path to the White House.

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[skeeter]

Good. Maybe one day the republicans will get serious about reforming the ludicrous immigration system, which is the impetus behind the rats movement to abolish the Electoral College.

[Snarknado]

Surely there must be some limitations on how states award their electoral votes? Otherwise couldn't a state legislature and governor simply pass a measure to award the votes to whomever they choose, ignoring the popular vote altogether? It seems a state could just change the process on the fly whenever it suited their purposes, maybe even after the election results are in but before the electoral college meets?

It's easy to foresee a scenario where the a presidential election is in effect overturned by the shenanigans of a single state, just as the partisan Florida courts tried to do in 2000 with an unlimited number of recount mulligans until the desired result was achieved.