Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger just signed an outrageous provision into law that would require Virginia to assign its electors to whichever candidate wins the popular vote in a federal election, regardless of whether that matches the results in the state.
This is a blatant Democrat effort to bypass one of the key checks and balances of the Constitution that they have long despised. The Democrats have always been an anti-constitutional party, but they are growing more and more blatant all the time, threatening the very survival of our Republic.
The Washington Examiner reported Tuesday:
The measure enters Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement among states to allocate their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the most votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, rather than the winner within their own state.
It is true that for this to take effect, the states involved in the compact would have to reach the threshold of 270 electoral votes, but it is still a blatant power grab. The compact has not quite reached the threshold it needs, but Spanberger took them a step closer.
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While the phrase “Electoral College” does not appear in the U.S. Constitution, Article II requires the states to provide electors to equal the number of their representatives and senators in Congress who will then cast ballots for the president and vice president. While they ordinarily all vote for whichever candidate wins the popular vote in their states, they do have the freedom to vote based on their own discretion. But the key here is that the constitutional process for electing presidents absolutely is not direct popular vote, and demands the mediatory step of electors. Therefore, I argue the multi-state compact is anti-constitutional and cannot be allowed.
While the compact currently includes 18 states and our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., bringing the electoral vote total to 222 votes or some couple dozen short of the threshold for it to take effect, it must not reach that threshold. Patriots should challenge this compact all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
The Electoral College exists for a very good reason. The Founding Fathers never meant for America to be a democracy; we were founded as a Republic. They were just as much afraid of mob rule as they were of aristocratic rule. What they rightly feared was that if popular vote alone determines the outcome of elections, it would be too easy for demagogues to fuel a tyranny of the majority. The Electoral College was a wise and necessary check on such a scenario. And the Founders would be even more adamantly opposed to presidential election by popular vote alone today, given the scope of Democrat election fraud, and the ability to manufacture God knows how many votes from thin air.
The Democrats are not doing this because they want to give more power to American voters. They are doing it because they are cheaters who hate our Republican form of government. They are crooked, but their goals are transparent.
