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Colorado’s Senate has passed a bill to have the state award its presidential electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
SB-19 passed on party lines Tuesday in the Senate.
Democratic Sen. Mike Foote’s bill would have Colorado join 11 states and the District of Columbia in what’s called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
It would require Colorado Electors to the Electoral College to cast their vote for the winner of the national popular vote. Currently, Colorado electors vote for the candidate who wins in Colorado.
It's a start. There is no other country that negates the popular vote. One person...one vote...done deal!
Colorado is only 1 state in the election of President of the United States. There are still 49 other states.
The miss conception is there is 1 election for President of the United States, when in-fact there are 50 state elections for the Presidency.
So if Colorado votes for an election and in that election there are 10 million people who voted total, and 9 million of those people voted for Party A; and 1 million voted for party B. Party A won the state election for Presidency for Colorado.
Now take Texas, if the same Party A and Party B are in the election, and in Texas a total of 8 million people voted for the election of President of the United States, and in this state election 2 Million Voted for Party A and 6 Million people voted for party B, in that case Party B won the state election. But in both cases it does not affect the national election.
The process is already 1 person 1 vote, but it is for each state. And the electoral college is what determines the presidency and not the popular vote. And that is already written into the constitution, so to change that you will need a constitutional convention and 38 states to agree and ratify it. Good luck with that.
It's a start. There is no other country that negates the popular vote. One person...one vote...done deal!
As a state they can do that, if you can find enough states with 270 electoral college votes to agree you could even circumvent the Constitution. Individually however they are taking a risk. I now it's unlikely but it would be absolutely hilarious if Trump won the popular vote in 2020 and the deciding factor in the Electoral College was Colorado's votes going to him despite the state voting for his opponent. Playing with fire....
They have to get to 270 before it goes into effect, Colorado is already doing it.
No, as a matter of fact, we aren't. Only the State Senate has passed it, the State House will need to as well, which I think is likely to happen, but you never know. And then still needs to be signed into law by the Governor.
I haven't read the text of the bill, so I'm not sure if it even does take effect immediately or only if enough other states pass the Popular Vote Compact.
this is like Daylight Saving Time...it is a STATE thing.
the State can do it by itself.
Hawaii does the DST opt-out.
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