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Wednesday, February 27th, 2019

Colorado governor will sign bill aimed at bypassing Electoral College

Author:     REID WILSON
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     02/25/19 11:19 AM EST
 Link: Colorado governor will sign bill aimed at bypassing Electoral College
Stephan:   In my opinion, this is a really good trend because it eliminates the power of the Electoral College without requiring a Constitutional amendment, so we never again have an election where three million more people vote for one candidate than the other but the loser becomes president through the Electoral College.  Bravo Colorado and Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat. But we still have a way to go, so write your state level representative and senator, if you have a bicameral state legislature, as well as the governor, and let them know what you want -- electors must vote based on the popular vote.

Democratic Governor of Colorado Jared Polis

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) will sign a measure to award his state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, moving a countrywide coalition one step closer to circumventing the Electoral College.

In an interview Sunday, Polis called the Electoral College an “undemocratic relic” of the nation’s past, one he wants to see relegated to the dustbin of history.
“I’ve long supported electing the president by who gets the most votes,” Polis told The Hill. “It’s a way to move towards direct election of the president.”
Colorado will become the 12th state to join the national popular vote interstate compact. Those 12 states and the District of Columbia, which has also passed a popular-vote bill, account for 181 electoral votes, just under 90 shy of the 270 votes a presidential candidate needs to win the White House.
The compact will not go into effect until the coalition includes states that add up to 270 electoral votes or more. Once it does go into effect, states that are part of the coalition […]

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3 Comments

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 6:32 am

    Doing away with the electoral college is the smartest way to create a REAL democracy.

  2. Eric on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 4:43 pm

    The next problem is the Senate and the 2 Senator-per-State rule. As more people move to urban centers, the rural States, which are heavily conservative, will become even more conservative thus ensuring that the Senate will always be a GOP-majority.

    • Stephan Schwartz on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 5:36 pm

      Eric —
      Yes, I agree with you. We need three things to restore democracy: 1) Get private money out of the system; 2) disempower the Electoral College; and, 3) restructure the Senate.