Colorado Tries to Game Electoral College, Disenfranchise Local Voters
Democrats hate beyond all reason to have a level playing field and to play fair but they hate President Trump even more.Because of this the legislature in the once great state of Colorado is trying to game the electoral college in a way that would disenfranchise that state’s voters in favor of voters in New York and California, as local TV station KUSA reports:
A bill that would pledge all of
Colorado’s nine electoral votes in presidential elections to the
candidate who wins the national popular vote passed a state Senate
committee Wednesday, sending it to the Senate floor for a vote.
Scores of professors, activists,
lobbyists, and citizens filled the committee’s room, the nearby hallway,
and a spillover room to hear the debate. Among them: newly elected
Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
The bill is a partisan issue, some
say, a rebuke of Donald Trump’s election in 2016. And many warned of
unintended consequences, deepening fractures in an already-divided
country.
The voters in the state of Colorado should be furious about this.
Democrats are trying to make their votes meaningless in favor of
California, New York, Illinois and other states.
The bill was proposed to Colorado’s
Senate Committee on State, Veterans and Military Affairs by its chair,
Sen. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette. And the committee passed it, voting along
party lines after hours of testimony.
It’s part of a nationwide movement.
Already 11 other states and the District of Columbia have adopted
identical legislation, said Joe Miklosi, founder and CEO of Denver-based
bridge consulting, who lobbies on behalf of the issue. Those states
amount to 172 electoral votes of the 270 minimum to elect a president.
Colorado is one of seven other states
expected to adopt the legislation this year, Miklosi said. Enough
states, totaling those 270 votes at a minimum, must also pass the
legislation before the agreement is activated.
Already, five presidents have won the
270 electoral votes without also winning the popular vote. Two of those
presidents — Trump and George W. Bush — were elected within the last
two decades.
The National Popular Vote bill would prevent such a scenario from happening again. That is, if enough other states follow suit.
The bill is about “every vote being
equal and every vote mattering in every presidential election,
regardless of where the voter lives. Right now, millions of voters
across the country cannot say that,” Foote said.
This attempt to subvert the Constitution is all about defeating Republicans and their hatred of President Trump.While Democrats clearly hate the President, they hate those of us who voted for him even more.
We are the real enemy in the eyes of the Democrats.
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