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    SCOTUS says Popular Vote Compact is Constitutional

    This means our votes don't count if you're in a state that signed the popular vote compact.

    It also means Biden is President soon.

    The ruling, just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner.
    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...l-15388514.php



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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowball View Post
    This means our votes don't count if you're in a state that signed the popular vote compact.
    Not sure what you mean there. The popular vote within each state will be represented by folks chosen by the political parties as electors to the national convention. It's just a formality for these states now. Folks wanting to go the convention are largely well connected party actors. The odd Ron Paul peeps that made it (as electors to the national conventions) in 2008 and 2012 aren't going to swing any elections by themselves.

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    SCOTUS: "Nothing in the Constitution expressly prohibits States from taking away presidential electors’ voting discretion as Washington does."

    Well, nothing in the Constitution expressly prohibits a State from seceding, banning abortion or banning gay marriage, but whatever.

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    It also means Biden is President soon.
    No it doesn't. Not sure why you want Biden to be president so badly if he does America is done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bern View Post
    Not sure what you mean there. The popular vote within each state will be represented by folks chosen by the political parties as electors to the national convention. It's just a formality for these states now. Folks wanting to go the convention are largely well connected party actors. The odd Ron Paul peeps that made it (as electors to the national conventions) in 2008 and 2012 aren't going to swing any elections by themselves.
    It means SCOTUS has ruled that States can overturn their election results if the state winner did not get the nationwide popular vote.
    I guess you're not familiar with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by familydog View Post
    SCOTUS: "Nothing in the Constitution expressly prohibits States from taking away presidential electors’ voting discretion as Washington does."

    Well, nothing in the Constitution expressly prohibits a State from seceding, banning abortion or banning gay marriage, but whatever.
    well, yeah, and the activists in the SCOTUS have ruled for ALL 3 of those, in a manner I disagree with in ALL 3.
    1) Secession ? No Right.
    2) Abortion? Right.
    3) Gay Marriage? Right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowball View Post
    It means SCOTUS has ruled that States can overturn their election results if the state winner did not get the nationwide popular vote.
    I guess you're not familiar with it.
    It literally means the exact opposite, SCOTUS says that state electors are supposed to reflect the will of the people in their state and state laws intended to keep electors in line with how the state votes are legal. The popular vote compact would force state electors to represent the national vote instead of the state vote.
    I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.

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    If I was an elector I would refuse to vote for Biden.
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    Per registered decision, member has been banned for violating community standards as interpreted by TheTexan (respect his authoritah) as authorized by Brian4Liberty Ruling

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    If I was an elector I would refuse to vote for Biden.
    Not to mention Biden's recent calls to trasnform America is not always a good one. That line "Transform" is a popuarl word for communists.

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    This would assume I care if Trump or Biden wins. I don't. The country is going to burn after the election no matter who wins. A peaceful transfer of power seems impossible anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowball View Post
    It means SCOTUS has ruled that States can overturn their election results if the state winner did not get the nationwide popular vote.
    I guess you're not familiar with it.
    That's not what it said, that would be an unconstitutional treaty between states.
    @Brian4Liberty, This thread is fake news.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowball View Post
    This means our votes don't count if you're in a state that signed the popular vote compact.

    It also means Biden is President soon.

    The ruling, just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner.
    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...l-15388514.php
    The second paragraph in that article is misleading:

    The ruling, in cases in Washington state and Colorado just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner, as electors almost always do anyway.
    That would be clearer if it said “bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner in that state”.

    Quote Originally Posted by Voluntarist View Post
    From the article you posted:


    This was only about "Faithless Electors" and restrictions imposed by the several States to penalize Electors who are faithless.
    Yep.

    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    It literally means the exact opposite, SCOTUS says that state electors are supposed to reflect the will of the people in their state and state laws intended to keep electors in line with how the state votes are legal. The popular vote compact would force state electors to represent the national vote instead of the state vote.
    Yep.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    The second paragraph in that article is misleading:



    That would be clearer if it said “bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner in that state”.



    Yep.



    Yep.
    Hello, Brian. I agree much of the knee-jerk reaction articles on that day were confusing. Still, consider this article and its quotes.

    "More practically speaking, if the court had ruled the other way, it might have made the National Popular Vote Compact unenforceable. After all, if the justices had found that states cannot force electors to vote a certain way, then states presumably couldn’t have forced electors to abide by the national popular vote."

    Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. brought that up in oral arguments in May, asking Lawrence Lessig, who was arguing in favor of faithless electors, “Under your view, there would be no way to enforce the popular vote referendum?

    Mr. Lessig said that assessment was correct: The compact would require participating states to choose a set of electors “that fits with the winner of the national popular vote, and that slate of electors then would have the same discretion, legal discretion, that we believe any elector has.”

    The justices’ rejection of Mr. Lessig’s arguments, then, at least leaves open the possibility that the compact could be enforced."

    Did the Popular Vote Just Get a Win at the Supreme Court?

    The justices’ ruling on faithless electors could indirectly help those who want to circumvent the Electoral College entirely.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/u...ular-vote.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowball View Post
    Hello, Brian. I agree much of the knee-jerk reaction articles on that day were confusing. Still, consider this article and its quotes.

    "More practically speaking, if the court had ruled the other way, it might have made the National Popular Vote Compact unenforceable. After all, if the justices had found that states cannot force electors to vote a certain way, then states presumably couldn’t have forced electors to abide by the national popular vote."

    Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. brought that up in oral arguments in May, asking Lawrence Lessig, who was arguing in favor of faithless electors, “Under your view, there would be no way to enforce the popular vote referendum?

    Mr. Lessig said that assessment was correct: The compact would require participating states to choose a set of electors “that fits with the winner of the national popular vote, and that slate of electors then would have the same discretion, legal discretion, that we believe any elector has.”

    The justices’ rejection of Mr. Lessig’s arguments, then, at least leaves open the possibility that the compact could be enforced."

    Did the Popular Vote Just Get a Win at the Supreme Court?

    The justices’ ruling on faithless electors could indirectly help those who want to circumvent the Electoral College entirely.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/u...ular-vote.html
    The important thing is the selection of electors, the campaigns are very careful and there are almost never any who don't vote the way they are pledged, under the NPVC the states would still select electors from the campaign that won the national popular vote even if they couldn't actually force them to vote as they were pledged.

    This ruling has no significant impact on the NPVC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    The important thing is the selection of electors, the campaigns are very careful and there are almost never any who don't vote the way they are pledged, under the NPVC the states would still select electors from the campaign that won the national popular vote even if they couldn't actually force them to vote as they were pledged.

    This ruling has no significant impact on the NPVC.
    I agree, they twisted it to mean something it doesn't. Which is to be expected.



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    don't be so dramatic good grief



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