Connecticut state Senate passes bill giving electoral votes to presidential candidate who wins popular vote.
The Hill– The Connecticut state Senate on Saturday voted in favor of a measure to give the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
The move puts the state in a position to become the 11th, in addition to Washington, D.C., to join an interstate compact to pool their Electoral College votes for the candidate who wins the popular vote.
The state Senate voted 21-14 in favor of the bill, with the support of three GOP lawmakers, The Guardian reported. The measure passed the state House on a 77-73 vote last month. Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy is expected to sign the legislation, according to the report.
President Trump won the Electoral College, but Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
Yea good luck with that. Nobody wants to be the United States of Southern California.
BUT WAIT BB… WHAT IF CA SECEDES??
PS
I wonder if the working men and women of Connecticut realize how many gun manufactures they’ve lost since the communist took over?
Benito
I’m praying three times daily they do. Imagine the counties sayen “Ah NO, Fuck You”. Yreka, back door Jefferson.
Clinton: Will you respect the results of the election?
Trump: Maybe.
Clinton proceeds to spend $$ to run up the popular vote, while forgetting about the electoral college.
Trump only spends $, (because who gives a greasy crap about the popular vote,) while earning an electoral college victory.
Go ahead. Change the rules. Trump will spend $$$ and win BOTH the popular vote AND the electoral college.
What,
Ever
Good luck with what?
The bill will pass in Connecticut.
If Pennsylvania and Ohio had this law in place in 2016, Hillary is our president.
What the left wants is to have California and New York decide the presidency.
President Sharpton
VP Moonbeam
YIKES! 🙁
BFH
Wait, this is defined under the Constitution. Right? The electoral college is defined in the 12th. Our problem is, we need a God Damn AG. Did someone blackmail this asshole or what? Bottom line, if any communist state pulls this shit, we’re going to court. I’m losing faith in Q fast, but damn I hope I’m wrong.
So, Connecticut “voters” want to just hand “their” ballots to Chicago “counters”? And, here, I thought women who voted however their men told them to, were stupid. (But still smart enough to actually vote.)
Go ahead you pompous assholes. Two states decide on how the other 48 live? Another civil war is coming…. and we have all the gun manufactures.
Brad, I sometimes question my judgement on Q also. But other than Trump, what else do we have as far as communicating the means and the objective? I’m sticking with him for now. You know, if it wasn’t for the perception that Sessions is falling on his face we would be pretty pleased with things. If only that damn Sessions would give us an indication that he isn’t sleepwalking.
The only vote that truly matters is the state that controls Pantex. Just saying.
There’s no conversation to the end here. Just hit and run. Good night.
Let’s see 10 million plus illegal aliens voting and now this.
Lie
Cheat
Steal
How could they lose
The problem is that possibility of circumvention of the electoral college was written into the Constitution (deliberately in my opinion). State legislatures choose the electors but the Constitution is silent on the method of their choosing. Likewise, the Constitution is silent on whether state legislatures may dictate the votes to be cast by their electors.
Trump is a Band-Aid. A surprisingly good one. But a Band-Aid can’t help with cancer. The Left is, by design, a terminal cancer, far too metastasized in our national system that it can’t not kill us in the end.
If this idea flies, other leftist states will do it before 2020 (“state’s rights!” they’ll scream) and then it’s game over. If not in 2020, 2024 for sure.
Let’s be honest, something like that scenario is pretty much a given. It can’t be avoided because there is no reconciliation possible with Communism. Either it dies or we do.
The only issue worth discussing is what we can do about it once it happens.
So if I were still a voter in CT and I and the majority in the state cast our ballots for the candidate that did not win the national majority, our votes would be ignored. This measure disenfranchises the voters of the state, wouldn’t that at least violate the state constitution not to mention the Constitution?
When you have subversive actors infesting the government from top top bottom and very strong measures aren’t taken to root them out it becomes a question of time before we are through as a republic.
We are going after them using adherence to the law and they respect no restrictions on behavior. It’s hard to see how we win peacefully. They are very close to getting their way.
I guess CT has tons of money for a lawsuit when they violate the US Constitution and a class action suit is brought.
Ultimately it is CT after all. It’s deep blue, so this willing forfeiture of state sovereignty wouldn’t have changed the outcome of 2016.
Question is, if CT votes blue in 2020, but Trump wins the popular vote, will they stick with their silly law? Doubtful.
Any state who elects phony soldier Blumenthal and Rosa DiLauro is already lost.
“hillary clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.”
3 million illegal votes !