If John Koza, chairman of the National Popular Vote Inc., gets his way, the Electoral College will no longer matter, and the presidency will go to the winner of the popular vote.
Koza is behind a movement to get states to work together and forge an agreement to award their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the nation-wide popular vote making the Electoral College obsolete. The agreement would take effect once it has been approved by enough states to make a majority of the Electoral College votes, or 270 votes. So far, Maryland and New Jersey are on board and there is legislation on the governor’s desk in Illinois .
Well, isn’t this a clever scheme to totally negate the constitution, but then again why let something as silly as the constitution stand in the way. Perhaps Koza is like millions of other people in this country that has never read the constitution and has no idea that Article I, section 10 of the constitution actually forbids such behavior from the states.
Article I, section 10 reads no state can enter into any agreement or alliance with another state without the consent of Congress.
If Mr. Koza and friends would do a little research and study some history they would understand the purpose of the Electoral College. The fact that these people do not know why the Electoral College exists and why it should continue to exist is just another example of the failure of our educational system.
Koza is behind a movement to get states to work together and forge an agreement to award their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the nation-wide popular vote making the Electoral College obsolete. The agreement would take effect once it has been approved by enough states to make a majority of the Electoral College votes, or 270 votes. So far, Maryland and New Jersey are on board and there is legislation on the governor’s desk in Illinois .
Well, isn’t this a clever scheme to totally negate the constitution, but then again why let something as silly as the constitution stand in the way. Perhaps Koza is like millions of other people in this country that has never read the constitution and has no idea that Article I, section 10 of the constitution actually forbids such behavior from the states.
Article I, section 10 reads no state can enter into any agreement or alliance with another state without the consent of Congress.
If Mr. Koza and friends would do a little research and study some history they would understand the purpose of the Electoral College. The fact that these people do not know why the Electoral College exists and why it should continue to exist is just another example of the failure of our educational system.
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