Maine and Nevada Show Why the Electoral College Helps Small States, Not Red States

[rangerrebew]

Maine and Nevada Show Why the Electoral College Helps Small States, Not Red States

Hans von Spakovsky   Laura Williamson / July 19, 2019 

 

Last month, both Maine and Nevada did what was in the best interests of their states: They rejected bills that would have enrolled their states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an unwise effort to override the Electoral College.

In Maine, it was killed by legislators in the state House after it passed Maine’s Senate. In Nevada, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak vetoed the bill that had been passed by members of his own party in the Legislature.

The National Popular Vote compact, which is an agreement between states, requires a participating state to award all of its electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes across the nation, not to the candidate who actually won the vote in that state.

In other words, states are agreeing to ignore what the majority of voters in their state decides when it comes to who they believe should be president. 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/19/maine-and-nevada-show-why-the-electoral-college-helps-small-states-not-red-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-and-nevada-show-why-the-electoral-college-helps-small-states-not-red-states&

[Cyber Liberty]

This is why it's important for Trump to win in 2020 in the popular vote.  States like California and New York will freak out when they discover their EC votes would have been cast for Trump, had the Compact been in place.

[jmyrlefuller]

Maine is also unusual in that it actually allows its congressional districts to each have one electoral vote and not pin it down to "plurality plus one gets all the votes."