By: Diane Benjamin
The election isn’t over under Congress counts the Electoral College votes. The Illinois Secretary of State announced all electoral votes would be cast for Kamala Harris. She won Illinois so they should go to her.
Alexi Giannoulias “forgot” Illinois signed a compact with 16 other states to cast all electoral votes for whoever won the popular vote. That would be Donald Trump.
If Donald Trump hadn’t won the popular vote these states would have attempted to change the Constitution with this compact causing a full blown Constitution crisis.
Has anyone heard a beep from these 17 states? Obviously this compact was only signed to destroy free and fair elections in favor of democrats. If Harris/Walz had won the popular vote we would not have a peaceful transfer of power in January.
Does this clarify what I’ve said over and over? Democrats only care about winning elections. They don’t care how they win, they will “change” the rules as necessary. In 4 years if a Republican wins the Electoral College but not the popular vote these states will suddenly remember the compact.
Read about the compact here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.[2][3][4]
Introduced in 2006, as of December 2024, it was joined by seventeen states and the District of Columbia. They have 209 electoral votes, which is 39% of the Electoral College and 77% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force. The idea gained traction amongst scholars after George W. Bush won the presidential election but lost the popular vote in 2000, the first time the winner of the presidency had lost the popular vote since 1888.
Certain legal questions may affect implementation of the compact. Some legal observers believe states have plenary power to appoint electors as prescribed by the compact; others believe that the compact will require congressional consent under the Constitution‘s Compact Clause or that the presidential election process cannot be altered except by a constitutional amendment.
I think that part of the deal is that it doesn’t kick in until they have 270 electoral votes represented by their states. Still a crappy idea.
I do not trust our government!
This idea is not good! It would virtually negate the electoral college.
Which is why they did it!
Democrats play to win. In Politics, it really is ALL about the winning.
It’s funny you think Democrats only care about winning elections when it’s obvious they are so bad at it.
40 days of early voting isn’t republicans. Neither is drivers license for illegals and same day registration with the citizenship tests legal. Nice try
Anti voter ID positions are so stupid. I had to show a photo ID to get a motel room!!!!! Democrats want to win but playing by the rules is not necessary, I’m really surprised Trump won! I’d have bet the farm the dems would have rigged it somehow.
RNC deployed thousands of lawyers. Early voting by Republicans overwhelmed them.
Illinois is still completely in compliance with the compact. It only kicks in when the combined number of electoral votes of all states in the compact add up to 270. Since they’re still waaaaay short of that, the compact is not in effect. Gosh, do you even read your “articles” before you post them. Mistakes like that are why you just aren’t taken more seriously.
Thanks for clarifying true evil!
She’s taken quite seriously by all but liberal progressive democrats. The very IDEA of the compact, regardless the fine print, is an attempt to undermine one of the key tenants of our constitution. Without the electoral college New York, Illinois, and California could run the nation. Actually it should be ruin the nation. The forefathers saw the risk of true democracy, or mob rule, that’s why we’re a Republic not a democracy.
A republic is a form of democracy, it is representative democracy. “Mob rule” as you describe it is more akin to direct democracy. So, yes, we are a democracy. And the electoral system, as it stands now, does favor small states. But that isn’t by design. Nowhere in the federalist papers will you find a justification for the electoral college being that it will prevent large states from having dominance over the small states (that concern was addressed through the compromise that set up our bilateral legislature. That’s a made up argument by modern conservatives that has no foundation in the writings of our founders. Just sayin….
What you will find in the federalist papers is the desire for members of the house to have districts that are not too large. It becomes impossible to represent constituents when you have too many people to represent. Each representative, on average, is representing 700,000 people. That is ridiculous. We need to add members to the house of Representatives to alleviate that problem. And no, before you say it, that isn’t “unconstitutional” and it has been done many times before to adjust for our growing population. It would it general create a House more tied to the constituents they represent, and it would give larger states a more fair shake in the electoral college (while still leaving the most underpopulated states with a slightly outsized impact in the electoral college) , just as they had when our nation was in it’s infancy.
Also, the right to run elections is left up to the states. If states want to sign a compact to cast their electoral votes for the popular vote winner, they can do that. There is nothing prohibiting them from doing that in the constitution. It’s called States’ rights. Look it up….And if you think it “cancels out the votes of the people in the state to do so,” well, our winner-take-all system already does that to anyone whose candidate didn’t win the electoral votes for their state. In other words, for you to complain about the compact is akin to someone arguing that it is unfair that Donald Trump got none of the electoral votes for Illinois despite getting 40% of the vote.
Public school education?
Wow, good reply Diane! You got me! Publicly edumacated! I’ve also read all of the federalist papers, endless amounts of biographies of our founders, and a range of other historical works. And remember, facts don’t care about your feelings. I have yet to see a substantive response from you. Good luck!!!!
And, despite the rubbish that is your “article,” I do genuinely wish you a swift recovery with your eyes. Health issues can be scary, and I wish you well.
I don’t do anything substantive at night
Fair enough! 😂 for the most part, I don’t either. Good night!
You spent a lot of words to say it’s okay to have the compact, and that we are a democracy. We aren’t. We are a Democrat Republic….which is different than a ” democracy” which IS mob rule. YOU look it up. I shudder to I think New York, Illinois, and California policy could dominate the nation! Right, wrong, legal, constitutional, or not it would be the ruin of America. The policies of those states are the most egregious examples of socialist buffoonery imaginable.
In a large part, society has drifted way away from our founders vision. Judeo-Christian values are being vilified. Maybe it’s time we split up. Have two ,three, or four counties. That way there could be somewhere for everyone, from the most pious to the most deviant social Marxist, to be amongst their peers.
Dave we’re not sore winners…..we learned the hard way four years ago how deceitful the democrats can be. It’s best to nip any attempts to undermine the Republic in the bud.
For one, the Compact you’re talking about was never enacted. I never read so much nonsense about the Electoral College. You really don’t understand how the Electoral College works.
Illinois like most states is a Winner take all state. Harris won the popular vote in Illinois, our 19 Electoral College votes go to Harris. Wisconsin, Michigan other states Electoral votes go to Trump.
Nebraska and Maine have a proportional system of splitting the Electoral College votes.
Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to Harris’s 226. He won the popular vote and the Electoral College votes. I don’t know what you beef is, you’re guy won. I never seen such sore winners.
Democrats just introduced a bill to abolish the EC. Of course it’s just for show.