New Jersey legislature passes National Popular Vote Plan
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 2:22pm by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Congress, Constitution, contract, elections, freedom, liberty, New Jersey, New Jersey legislature, New Jersey Senate, politics, USA, votinghttp://www.ballot-access.org/…
On January 3, the New Jersey Senate passed A4225 by a vote of 22-13. It is the National Popular Vote Plan. The bill now goes to the Governor, who is expected to sign it.
You can read more about it at their website: NationalPopularVote.com. I commented on this when it passed the Assembly back on the 14th of December.
Demo Rep makes a good point that this could violate US Constitution Article 1, Section 10, paragraph 3 which states:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
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January 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Their three sentence description (emphasis mine):
Why should NJ throw away the intent of its citizens by allocating its electoial votes according to the popular vote of other states? If guess if all 50 states were to enact this method, it would sort of work out, but it seems flawed until so. And still, it’s all but admitting that the electorial college is flawed. Could you imagine Texas having to allocate its electoral votes all Democrat (supposing the other 49 states voted overwhelmingly Democrat) when everyone in Texas voted Republican? NPV is a hack fix.
Second, I don’t believe this settles the big / little state balance. Swing states become meaningless, as they claim, but the emphasis will be on New York and California. Smaller states get nothing.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I’ve a better way to fix all this. Eliminate the position.