Mass. may join effort to bypass Electoral College

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Boston.com:

The state Legislature is poised to give final approval this week to a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.

Both the House and Senate have approved the National Popular Vote bill. Final enactment votes are needed in both chambers, however, before the bill goes to the governor's desk, the Globe reported last week.

Governor Deval Patrick's press office didn't immediately return a message this morning seeking comment on whether he would sign the bill, if it makes its way to his desk.

Under the proposed law, all 12 of the state's electoral votes would be awarded to the candidate who receives the most votes nationally.

Supporters are waging a state-by-state campaign to try to get such bills enacted. Once states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (or 270 of 538) have enacted the laws, the candidate winning the most votes nationally would be assured a majority of the Electoral College votes, no matter how the other states vote and how their electoral votes are distributed.

Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, and Washington have already adopted the legislation, according to the National Popular Vote campaign's website.

Supporters of the change say that the current Electoral College system is confusing and causes candidates to focus unduly on a handful of battleground states.

Critics say the current system is not broken. They also point to the disturbing scenario that Candidate X wins nationally, but Candidate Y has won in Massachusetts. In that case, all of the state's 12 electoral votes would go to Candidate X, the candidate who was not supported by Massachusetts voters.

The measure passed both branches of the Legislature in 2008 but did not make it all the way through the process.
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These measures won't go anywhere on a national level. It should be noted that this is being done in Democratic states.

[Sabre86]

This is the Democrats way to ensure their power forever.

 

Right now the Electoral College negates their voter fraud efforts as no matter how many dead people vote in Chicago and other big cities, it will not change the outcome. The states were Dems carry out the most voter fraud are going to go Dem anyway under all but the most unusual circumstances. Therefore it doesn't matter if "Candidate X" gets 80% of the vote in Illinois, New York, Michigan, California, and other hard core Dem states.

 

However, if the president is elected by popular vote, the "vote early, vote often, and keep voting after you're dead" will ensure only hard core leftists will win the White House forever.