Nevada passes National Popular Vote bill
in bid to upend Electoral College
Washington Times,
by
Valerie Richardson
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
5/22/2019 6:17:50 AM
The Nevada Senate approved Tuesday a National Popular Vote bill on a party-line vote, sending the legislation aimed at upending the Electoral College to the governor.
Assembly Bill 186, which passed the Senate on a 12-8 vote, would bring Nevada into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement between participating states to cast their electoral votes for the winner of the popular vote.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/22/2019 6:27:36 AM (No. 68624)
#1 - It will be all over for The Republic forever as well, which, sad to say, would make a lot of people extremely happy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/22/2019 6:30:55 AM (No. 68627)
N.B. Same article was posted early morning by Harlowe.
2 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
MattMusson 5/22/2019 6:37:34 AM (No. 68632)
The Constitution explicitly states how a President is elected. This baloney will be found unconstitutional as soon as someone with standing can show they have been harmed by it.
20 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/22/2019 8:11:51 AM (No. 68686)
Nevada voting to hand their representation over to costal urbanites. Nice going kids.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Socio 5/22/2019 8:15:26 AM (No. 68689)
This insurrection seems to be gaining momentum, the more States they get the harder it is going to be to stop it, this is going to cause chaos for the 2020 election, I can already see the winner ultimately being decided by the courts with mess which is no doubt the intent by the Left.
4 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
nordlander 5/22/2019 8:44:34 AM (No. 68707)
If the Governor signs this, he's just made his state completely irrelevant in future Presidential elections. Why would anyone take the time or effort to woo Nevada's scattered population when there's over 13 times more people in neighboring California? Or more votes in 31 other states?
Every metro area in California has more people than the entire state of Nevada, except for Sacramento, and it's larger than Las Vegas which contains 2/3 of Nevada's population. Even neighboring Phoenix has 1.5 times the total population of Nevada.
10 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Pearson365 5/22/2019 8:58:13 AM (No. 68717)
Yet another attempt to destroy our Constitution all because the most openly corrupt person to ever run for President lost to Trump. What these Democrat controlled states are attempting to do should frighten all Americans because gaining power by any means is designed to achieve one party rule, with that party obsessed with undermining our Bill of Rigts and the rule of law.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hotcorner 5/22/2019 9:06:41 AM (No. 68722)
Next thing you know the liberals in Nevada will change the name of McCarran Airport to Harry Reid Airport. The Democrats are done in Nevada's next election. They are lunatics along with this crazy fat governor Sisolak,
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 5/22/2019 9:36:28 AM (No. 68744)
This goes nowhere.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
vhs68 5/22/2019 9:55:33 AM (No. 68755)
This NPV bill will eliminate most states from having any impact on the presidential election. You will have about 7-cities who will now control who is elected president. This combination should just about do it: Philadelphia-NYC-Cleveland-Los Angles-Chicago-San Francisco-Detroit. You wouldn't even need: Boston-Seattle-Baltimore.
Politicians would not even show up in many states. Why bother? The fix is in.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/22/2019 10:01:40 AM (No. 68761)
I have a hard time understanding why the people of Nevada (or any other small state) would willingly give up their right to have their residents votes count. If I understand what I am reading, even if candidate A wins the popular vote in Nevada, the Electors will be required to vote for candidate B if they won more of the popular vote in the rest of the country. This disenfranchises the people of Nevada. Thank you Democrats! They will like this idea until a Republican wins.
6 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/22/2019 10:09:27 AM (No. 68770)
They still believe in the Constitution down in Gulfport. Great casinos and a more pleasant environment.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/22/2019 11:41:43 AM (No. 82095)
I don't think the states need change anything in the Constitution to do this. The state can change it's own rules to grant all its electors to the party with the winning popular vote. In effect, the same thing.
In effect, the chicken would go with the wolves' vote on what to have for lunch.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 5/22/2019 11:55:45 AM (No. 82104)
The real answer is proportional allocation of winner of the popular vote in each EC district (435 House districts) and allow each Senator to cast their votes as they see fit, likely along party lines. Now, you will have removed the 5-6 "swing" states that get flooded with advertisements to sway them, and you'll have to campaign in areas you may not have seen candidates campaign in a very long time.
Remove winner-take-all allocation.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Upright2 5/22/2019 12:43:56 PM (No. 82128)
It should be un-Constitutional.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/22/2019 12:48:54 PM (No. 82132)
Can't their 'choice' be disqualified- negating their votes until they sober up next time around?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
msjena 5/22/2019 12:50:50 PM (No. 82133)
This could backfire. For instance, George W. Bush won the popular vote in 2004. Would New York, California and other blue states really have cast their electoral votes for him?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
zoidberg 5/22/2019 2:06:07 PM (No. 82156)
I would guess that any legal Nevada voter would have standing to sue over this law.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 5/22/2019 3:44:45 PM (No. 82178)
So, next election, Trump wins the national popular vote, and even though Nevada went for the Dem, its electoral votes will go to Trump.
Oh, the Karma if that happens!
Still, the new law is stupid and unconstitutional.
2 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
john56 5/22/2019 3:59:49 PM (No. 82185)
Read the fine print. It probably only permits the electors to support Democrat party candidates who win the popular vote. Or, the "faithless electors" rule will override when Republicans win the popular vote.
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