Activists seeking to eliminate the Electoral College in favor of a popular vote to elect the president boast that their movement is almost one-fifth the way to its goal. Critics say the change would render rural America politically irrelevant.
Four states – Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey – which represent 50 of the 270 electoral votes needed to declare a presidential election winner, have committed to an agreement whereby they would grant their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, a move that – if adopted by enough states – would reduce the Electoral College to irrelevancy.
With most of the nation's states considering similar bills pending in their respective legislatures, activists are looking to 2016 as a possible death date for the Electoral College.
John Koza, chairman of National Popular Vote, a group leading the charge to eliminate the Electoral College, explains the agreement won't go into effect until states with a total of 270 electoral votes join in."
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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I thought this was a constitutional issue, not a state legislative one.
ReplyDeleteLong overdue retirement of an anachronism in any case.
it is a constitutional issue ... they are trying to implement this through a back door. did you read ron pauls comments in the original article?
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