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2019-02-03 Home Front: Politix
Colorado Senate Passes Bill Nixing Electoral College in Favor of Popular Vote
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Posted by Fred 2019-02-03 01:27|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Imagine that!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-02-03 01:52||   2019-02-03 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, if you were to combine this with effectively enforced voter ID ...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-03 03:14||   2019-02-03 03:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Does that include ballots cast under electoral fraud?

What if the vote is about 50-50 and Colorado's vote could tip the balance either way? What if several states went this route and they were all waiting on each other?
Posted by gorb 2019-02-03 05:33||   2019-02-03 05:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Then there is no need for states. They're just inconvenient, inefficient, and redundant administrative units to a federal system owned and dominated by 10 or so major metropolitan areas. We could probably consolidate it down to maybe two dozen regional districts.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-03 06:18||   2019-02-03 06:18|| Front Page Top

#5 And switch to proportional representation, 2Pk? Otherwise...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-03 06:40||   2019-02-03 06:40|| Front Page Top

#6 We could probably consolidate it down to maybe two dozen regional districts. Posted by Procopius2k

Independent provinces? What are you suggesting, another British invasion and attempt at land and natural resource grabbing ?
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-03 06:49||   2019-02-03 06:49|| Front Page Top

#7 ...nah, just taking the logic to the next level given the socialist/Left lust for power and micro-management. The historically illiterate have no use for 'lessons learned' on the scale the founder did.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-03 07:12||   2019-02-03 07:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Well you are correct, the established FEMA regions are indeed 'the next level.'
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-03 07:18||   2019-02-03 07:18|| Front Page Top

#9 IN other words, Colorado just gave its populace the middle finger and handed over their electoral representation to California and New York.

So Candidate A wins the aggregate vote, fraud and all, by 10,000, but Candidate B wins Colorado by 30,000. And you're giving the electoral votes to Candidate A, counter to what the people of Colorado wanted? I smell a lawsuit and a deleayed outcome.

Or Candidate A wins the aggregate vote, but absent these give-away laws, Candidate B wins the electoral vote by, say, 30, but with the shenanigans they lose by 2.

Can you say constitutional crisis?
Posted by Glolush Whusotch4899 2019-02-03 08:05||   2019-02-03 08:05|| Front Page Top

#10 from the article: "If enough states sign onto the compact, it would change the outcome of presidential elections by awarding all electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote.

But the bill is not likely to become law unless the Colorado House approves and enough states agree to the compact."

So, is the Colorado House likely to approve?
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-02-03 09:21||   2019-02-03 09:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Currently (Wiki) the Colorado House is 63.1% D.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-02-03 09:24||   2019-02-03 09:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Who determines the "popular" vote?
How long will that take?
Do the votes of Coloradans count?

This should be the end of the federal republic.
Posted by AlanC 2019-02-03 09:45||   2019-02-03 09:45|| Front Page Top

#13 ..it is.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-03 10:28||   2019-02-03 10:28|| Front Page Top

#14 "All NONE of Colorado’s voters should be heard, regardless of whether or not we are considered a battleground state."

Fixed. As Glolush noted this basically disenfranchises the CO voters. No candidates will visit or give a crap about CO, instead focusing exclusively on more populous states like NY, CA...
I think they are going to get a nasty lesson as to why the electoral collage is needed.
Posted by CrazyFool 2019-02-03 11:13||   2019-02-03 11:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Okay, candidate X is 10,000 votes ahead in all the other states.....candidate Y is 12,000 votes ahead in Colorado....who wins?

The favorite of the progressive Democrats.
Posted by AlanC 2019-02-03 11:22||   2019-02-03 11:22|| Front Page Top

#16 And so starts the second Civil War, I hope patriots make note of every elected official that has voted for these and makes them pay for their full devotion to their ideals of destroying the US.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-02-03 11:40||   2019-02-03 11:40|| Front Page Top

#17 If this is in force then it’s going to be fun when Trump wins the 2020 popular vote and CO turns red in spite of them voting almost exclusively blue...
Posted by CrazyFool 2019-02-03 11:55||   2019-02-03 11:55|| Front Page Top

#18 So, then, is it OK if states whose populations chafe under the rule of New Yorkers and Californians secede? Or are we really setting ourselves up for another civil war?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-03 14:23||   2019-02-03 14:23|| Front Page Top

#19 Colorado wil break apart. And the country follows. Like logs on my log splitter.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-02-03 16:20||   2019-02-03 16:20|| Front Page Top

#20 The California Plague has finally killed Colorado and given its electoral votes to California.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-02-03 18:06||   2019-02-03 18:06|| Front Page Top

#21 Meet your future rulers - half of the U.S. population lives in these counties:
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2019-02-03 19:27||   2019-02-03 19:27|| Front Page Top

#22 Modern siege warfare can reduce their population in mere weeks.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-02-03 20:06||   2019-02-03 20:06|| Front Page Top

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