April 21, 2023 1:19pm EDT
Minnesota election overhaul bill would 'manipulate' Electoral College, Hillary Clinton elector warns
Currently, the NPV has 195 electoral votes from 15 states — 270 are needed to win the White House
By Houston Keene | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: The Minnesota legislature has an elections omnibus going through it that would "manipulate" the Electoral College, a presidential elector for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned.
Three Democrat-backed bills are making their way through the Minnesota House and Senate to address election laws, with one of the bills passing through the House earlier this week.
The bills, two of them over 100 pages long, are part of an elections omnibus package — and include a provision to put Minnesota into the National Popular Vote (NPV) interstate compact.
Fox News Digital was told by a source that the NPV provision included in the omnibus was added before Democrats in the state legislature could vet it, violating party caucus rules requiring omnibus provision review.
Omnibus bills are also considered must-pass legislation by the Minnesota Democrat caucus.
Jasper Hendricks, executive director of Democrats for the Electoral College and a former Clinton presidential elector, warned the "NPV compact is dangerously unstable" and said the theory behind the provision was the same theory behind the January 6th protesters.
"As written, the plan would use state legislative power to manipulate the Electoral College, and it relies on the same theory some supporters of President Donald Trump had after the 2020 election that legislators can ignore the will of the people in their state, take control of their presidential electoral votes, and — in the case of NPV — force them to agree with the nationwide popular vote," Hendricks said.
"Adding confusion and chaos to our election process, NPV can take effect without a majority of states participating, but it relies on cooperation from all states," he continued. "It could be activated or deactivated for the entire country based on the actions of just one state legislature or court."
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