RE: EC Resolution
November 5, 2020 at 3:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2020 at 3:40 pm by HappySkeptic.)
(November 5, 2020 at 2:06 pm)Aegon Wrote: That's... dumb.
Splitting your electoral votes by popular vote within the state makes way, way more sense.
No, splitting the vote simply makes a state irrelevant. If all states split their vote, that would amount to a popular vote, and that would be fine.
The purpose of the compact is to override the effect of the electoral college on the election. If enough states comprising 270 electoral college votes sign on, it effectively turns the presidential race into a popular-vote race.
I dislike this solution, as it legitimizes states sending electors that are different than the will of the local voters. If the compact ever gets broken by future state legislatures, it legitimizes a state to just send whoever they want. Imagine if Biden wins Georgia, but the state just says "nope, we will send Trump electors." They can't according to their own laws (right now), but the constitution totally allows them to.
The constitution needs to be torn down and re-written. This is just a way around it, that could backfire.
