Colorado proposes to vote for national popular vote winner in electoral college

[emailking]

Disgusting overreach of power proposed by the Democrats.

How is it an overreach of power? It is the right of the legislature to choose how the elctors are allocated, and the power is quite broad as has been affirmed by the Supreme Court many times.

Has this actually been litigated? Iirc several states have laws punishing faithless electors and in some cases nullified their changed votes, which definitely feels like it should be unconstitutional, but...

Feels like it should be, but SCOTUS has ruled it's legal for the electors to be pledged. Techincally punishment & replacment laws for a non-compliant vote have not been tested.

[Dukakisite1988]

If Trump wins Colorado next year then he will almost certainly have also won the national popular vote, so this won't be too relevant for next year.

[RINO Tom]

Does no one remember before the 2012 election when there were quite a few people speculating about Romney winning the PV but he'd have too much trouble winning the EC?  Lol

[Crumpets]

Does no one remember before the 2012 election when there were quite a few people speculating about Romney winning the PV but he'd have too much trouble winning the EC?  Lol

Ah yes, I remember it well...

[Progressive Pessimist]

Does no one remember before the 2012 election when there were quite a few people speculating about Romney winning the PV but he'd have too much trouble winning the EC?  Lol

Ah yes, I remember it well...

Fun fact: this tweet set a world record of the most ironic thing in existence.