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    Arizona bill proposes the legislature decide who wins electoral college votes, not voters.

    The RNC and Trump wanted to just declare Trump the presumptive nominee, after voting in just 2 small states, without pesky voting by Republicans in the rest of the 48 states. 6 Arizona Republicans have introduced a bill to ignore the U.S. Constitution, and require the state to keep an...
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    Arizona bill proposes the legislature decide who wins electoral college votes, not voters.

    The 2020 Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed the power of states over their electoral votes, using state laws in effect on Election Day. The decision held that the power of the legislature under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution is “far reaching” and it conveys the “the broadest power...
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    Arizona bill proposes the legislature decide who wins electoral college votes, not voters.

    In 1789, in the nation's first election, a majority of the states appointed their presidential electors by appointment by the legislature or by the governor and his cabinet, the people had no vote for President in most states, and in states where there was a popular vote, only men who owned a...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    More people register to vote and do vote when they know their vote matters. If you're a Republican voter in a blue state or a Democratic voter in a red state, your vote for president doesn't matter to your candidate. With the National Popular Vote bill in effect, presidential campaigns would...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Because of state-by-state winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution. . . Issues of importance to 38 non-battleground states are of so little interest to presidential candidates that they don’t even bother to poll them individually. Charlie Cook reported in...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Voters in the biggest cities in the US are almost exactly balanced out by rural areas in terms of population and partisan composition. 16% of the U.S. population lives outside the nation's Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Rural America has voted 60% Republican. None of the 10 most rural states...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Support for a national popular vote has been strong in rural states None of the 10 most rural states (VT, ME, WV, MS, SD, AR, MT, ND, AL, and KY) is a battleground state. The current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes ( not mentioned, much...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    In Gallup polls since they started asking in 1944 until the 2016 election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Under the Constitution and existing federal laws, all counting, recounting, and judicial proceedings must be conducted so as to reach a “final determination” prior to the uniform nationwide “safe harbor” date -- 6 days before the uniform nationwide day when the Electoral College meets in...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Congressional consent is not required for the National Popular Vote compact under prevailing U.S. Supreme Court rulings. The U.S. Constitution provides: "No state shall, without the consent of Congress,… enter into any agreement or compact with another state…." Although this language may seem...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    In state polls of voters each with a second question that specifically emphasized that their state's electoral votes would be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote in all 50 states, not necessarily their state's winner, there was only a 4-8% decrease of support. Question 2: "Do...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Unable to agree on any particular method, the Founding Fathers left the choice of method for selecting presidential electors exclusively to the states by adopting the language contained in section 1 of Article II of the U.S. Constitution-- "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    In polls by National Popular Vote, voters were asked "How do you think we should elect the President: Should it be the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states, or the current Electoral College system?" Support for a national popular vote has been strong among Republicans, Democrats...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Now, a presidential candidate could lose despite winning 78%+ of the popular vote and 39 states. With the current state-by-state winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), it could only take winning a bare...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    Of COURSE voters will turn out in small states. It's not about state size. Support for a national popular vote has been strong in every smallest state surveyed in polls among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group Among...
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    Trump: Against the Electoral College; For National Popular Vote

    A successful nationwide presidential campaign of polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits, with every voter equal, would be run the way presidential candidates campaign to win the electoral votes of closely divided battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, under the state-by-state...
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    The Electoral College Should Be Abolished?

    An analysis of the whole number proportional plan and congressional district systems of awarding electoral votes, evaluated the systems "on the basis of whether they promote majority rule, make elections more nationally competitive, reduce incentives for partisan machinations, and make all votes...
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    The Electoral College Should Be Abolished?

    The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the majority of Electoral College votes, and thus the presidency, to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the country, by replacing state winner-take-all laws for awarding electoral votes in the enacting states...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld state laws guaranteeing faithful voting by presidential electors (because the states have plenary power over presidential electors). There is no reason to think that the Electoral College would prevent an extremist from being elected President of the United...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    The National Popular Vote bill would end the disproportionate attention and influence of the "mob" in the current handful of closely divided battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, while the "mobs" of the vast majority of states are ignored. 9 states determined the 2012 election. 10 of...
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