Jeff Parker cartoon credit: capoliticalreview.com
The 2020 elections will probably
involve so many types of corruption that Al Capone would be envious. Stuffing
the ballot box. Voters casting ballots more than once, including in different
states. Voting early and often. Counting the votes of the deceased. Tampering with electronic voting machines. There are
efforts to grant felons the right to vote – while they are serving their
sentence. The Democrats don’t play by the rules, so they are busy trying to
change the rules.
At American Thinker, David Horowitz of FrontPage Magazine explains the
Democrat party’s plan to end-run the Electoral College. It’s a must-read. Here’s
the opener:
While you were sleeping, the
Democrats (abetted by some deviant Republicans) have been working on a plan
that would destroy the diversity of the American political system and bring the
nation to the brink of civil war. The plan is called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and tens of millions of dollars have already been spent
over several decades trying to implement it. Fourteen blue states and the
District of Columbia have already joined the Compact, which means they are 70%
on the way to making their proposal the law of the land.
The Democrats’ plan is designed to
eliminate the influence of the Electoral College in choosing the nation’s
president, no doubt because while Hillary won the popular vote she failed [to] win
necessary votes in the Electoral College. Eliminating the influence of the Electoral
College would end the diversity now embodied in the federal system with its
division of powers between Washington and the fifty states.
The fact that
a party which presents itself as a defender of diversity should be leading the
charge to eliminate the nation’s most powerful source of diversity should be
all that is required to understand the threat their agenda poses to what has
been the nation’s constitutional way of life for 232 years.
The Electoral College and the
division of powers are features of the Constitution. But the National Popular
Vote movement does not propose to amend the Constitution because it doesn’t
have the votes to do that. Instead, in the name of “democracy,” it proposes
to circumvent the Constitution and its requirement of large national
majorities for amending what has been the fundamental law of the land. Think
how Orwellian that is, and how concerning it should be for anyone believing the
Founders created the most practical, realistic, democratic, diverse and
successful polity the world has ever seen.
This is how the Democrats’
circumvention of the Constitution and its provision for an Electoral College
would work. Instead of abolishing the College, which would require the support
of two-thirds of the states, they are hoping to put together a coalition of
states representing 270 electoral votes that would agree to award all
their votes to whoever wins the national vote. In other words, if the popular
vote is won by 10 votes, every state in the Compact would award 100% of their
votes to that party, even if a majority of the voters in their state voted
against them.
The bottom line (and goal) of this
devious plan is to eliminate the influence of rural voters or “Middle America”
and create an electoral lock for the large urban population centers, e.g.,
California and New York, which would then decide the direction of the
country.
The rest of Mr. Horowitz's article is here. The good news: Ohioans dodged a bullet this time, as the organizers dropped plans to try to
get the issue on the ballot in November 2019:
[April 2019] Secretary of State Frank LaRose
announced in a press
release Tuesday that the amendment had been formally withdrawn by its
backers, Ohioans For Making Every Vote Matter. The group said in a statement
there wasn't sufficient time to gather enough signatures to qualify for the
Nov. 5, 2019 ballot.
On Twitter,
LaRose called the decision "nothing but good news."
"The only thing this flawed
amendment would have accomplished is to make sure your vote for president is
essentially meaningless," he wrote.
The bad news: This issue surely
will not go away.
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