sur•rep•ti•tious [sur-uh p-tish-uh s] adjective1. obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
2. acting in a stealthy way.
3. obtained by subreption; subreptitious
Can we survive if we continue to do nothing?
So this is how they are going to do it. The Electoral College (“College”), the last great protection given to us by our wise and thoughtful Founding Fathers is under attack and is being stripped away under the cover of darkness. What’s worse, no one seems to be aware that it is happening or what the consequences for this action might be. What are the ramifications if this College is allowed to be eliminated? The small, rural, less-populated states basically lose their voice in a presidential election.
According to “[t]he Electoral College, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is not a place. It is a process that began as part of the original design of the U.S. Constitution. The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. The people of the United States vote for the electors who then vote for the President.”[1]
“The electors are a popularly elected body chosen by the States and the District of Columbia on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November (November 4, 2008). The Electoral College consists of 538 electors (one for each of 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 Senators; and 3 for the District of Columbia by virtue of the 23rd Amendment). Each State's allotment of electors is equal to the number of House members to which it is entitled plus two Senators. The decennial census is used to reapportion the number of electors allocated among the States.
… If no presidential candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution provides for the presidential election to be decided by the House of Representatives. The House would select the President by majority vote, choosing from the three candidates who received the greatest number of electoral votes. The vote would be taken by State, with each State delegation having one vote. If no Vice Presidential candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, the Senate would select the Vice President by majority vote, with each Senator choosing from the two candidates who received the greatest number of electoral votes.”[2]
“... Sometimes countries change their rulers by a military coup against whomever is in power.
The United States has had a stable government for two centuries, and every change from one governing gang to another has been peaceful and accepted by the American people. The Founding Fathers created a unique system in the U.S. Constitution called the Electoral College. It is the mirror image of the great compromise that created Congress, recognizing both big population states and small states. The Electoral College respects the fact that we are both a nation of "We the people" and also a nation of individual states.
All of a sudden, a new movement has emerged called National Popular Vote that is trying to change our method of electing a President. They are not doing it in the proper way by proposing a constitutional amendment; they are trying to abolish the Electoral College by stealth. They go around the country to get state legislatures to pass a law that would order their state's presidential Electors to ignore how the people of their state voted and instead cast their Electoral College ballots for whoever they think won the most votes nationwide. This is offensive on many levels: first, because it is vote stealing on a massive scale, and second because it dishonestly makes people believe that they are voting for the candidate who got a majority of the popular vote, whereas there is no requirement that the candidate have a majority; he most usually will have only a plurality. Tell you state legislators to vote No on National Popular Vote. We like the U.S. Constitution the way it was written. It has served us well.”[3]
There have been enactment by 9 States for 132 electoral votes; or 29% of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate the legislation.
• Maryland - 10 votes
• Massachusetts - 11
• Washington - 12 votes
• Vermont - 3 votes
• DC - 3 votes
• Hawaii - 4 votes
• New Jersey - 14 votes
• Illinois - 20 votes
• California - 55 votes
Who is in favor of the change? Primarily, densely-populated, heavily Democrat or very liberal states, all in a heap of financial trouble and all strongly in support of obozo. Even the unlikely Fred Thompson has stamped his approval on the movement. See more at: http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110512006534/en
According to the Nevada News & Views says, “National Popular Vote: Dangerous Scheme to Steal Presidential Elections”
"(Janine Hansen) – In 2008 Nevada was favored by great attention from Presidential candidates. Candidates Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and Ron Paul even graced rural Elko. We might ask the question, why was Nevada, with only 5 Electoral College Votes, important enough for such lavish attention?
In the “Great Compromise” of 1787 which brought small and large states together to form our Constitution and Union, small states received equal representation in the Senate—2 Senators each. While, large states received, proportional representation based on population in the U.S. House of Representatives. The genius of this Great Compromise, which brought large and small states together and made us a nation, was extended to the process for electing our president known as the Electoral College, where the electors from states small and large cast votes for president based on this Great Compromise formula.
In the Electoral College all states and all regions of the country are important because the final tally for presidential votes is based on the Electoral College. No president can win by only receiving the popular vote in the large population states. All the people in every state small and large are important participants in presidential politics and the presidential election.
Now there is a scheme to strip the genius of our Electoral College out of our U.S. Constitution, not by the time honored process of amending the Constitution, but by circumventing the Constitution through an agreement between the states called “National Popular Vote.” The Constitution requires that three-fourths of the states, that’s 38 states, agree to amend the Constitution. National Popular Vote would change that by allowing as few as 18 to 21 states to make an agreement, thereby skirting around the Constitution and implementing this NPV agreement.
National Popular Vote would require that all states who sign on to their NPV agreement must forfeit their states electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes. However, there is no lower threshold that a presidential candidate must achieve. No president has been elected in recent years with over 50% of the popular vote, because of third party candidates. Every president is elected by a ”plurality” not a majority.
Under the NPV scheme, a president could win with as little as 30 percent or even 15 percent of the popular vote, depending upon how many candidates were running. When a presidential candidate is “declared” to be the National Popular Vote winner, all states that have signed onto the NPV agreement must forfeit their electoral votes to the “designated” winner. In other words, if Nevadans voted for candidate A and candidate B was designated as the NPV winner, Nevada’s votes would go to candidate B regardless of how Nevadans voted!
This is a grand vote stealing scheme to amass power in the hands of the big population states like New York, California, Florida, Texas, and Illinois, while abandoning the protections for small states secured by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution through the Electoral College.
The Nevada State Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections will be considering SB344 “National Popular Vote” on Thursday April 7th. If the Nevada Legislature votes for SB344 National Popular Vote, it would be like Esau the son of Abraham selling his birthright to Jacob his brother for a mess of pottage.
This may be the most important and potentially dangerous vote our Legislature casts this session. The future of the nation and our Constitution is at stake."[4]
It will end elections as we know them, and perhaps, it is necessary to pass if the Democrats want to retain the White House. I know of no better way to cancel out Mom and Pop middle America and impose liberal, radical, progressive, socialist, tree-hugging, environmentally radical ideas on everyone? I don't believe there is one. Please share, stand, and oppose the elimination of the Electoral College.
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[1] http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about.html
[2] http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/procedural_guide.html
[3] http://blog.eagleforum.org/2010/04/whats-wrong-with-popular-vote-movement.html
[4] http://nevadanewsandviews.com/2011/04/05/national-popular-vote-dangerous-scheme-to-steal-presidential-elections/
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