If you live in Colorado they stole your vote to vote for whom you want in the presidential election... So do something about it.
With the recent push to make the popular vote the rule of the land State Democratic Senators, and the Democratic Governor of Colorado voted to do away with the electoral college vote and go with the popular vote.
You may think, so what, that sounds like a great idea?
Really?
Consider this we are a union of states. Do you think any state would willingly join a union of states if they were told that the popular vote would dictate their rights?
Let me give you some numbers to help you out:
United States Population: 331,883,986 Source
Colorado Population: 5,761,252 (1.7%) Source
California Population: 40,017,007 (12%) Source
New York Population: 19,875,625 (6%) Source
If all states were equal in the Union they each would have 2% of the possible vote due to there being 50 states.
That is where the illusion of "popular" vote comes in.
We are essentially 50 smaller countries who all joined into a union.
Yet would you as Colorado join in the union if you knew California's vote was worth 6x as much as yours?
The electoral college was born. It has a fixed value and every state has them, though not all states are equal even in the electoral college. It does however, let even the voice of the smallest state have some worth.
Now with the recent Colorado bill they have decided to go with the "Popular" vote which means that if I vote for A and California and New York vote for B then they will decide I voted for B too. Though I didn't. In many cases I'd rather not vote than vote for B. I'd likely vote for C or D before voting for B.
Yet the vote has essentially been stolen and Colorado has been turned into a vassal state of the larger states.
There are groups in motion to do something about this. If you are angry like me and want something done I am going to devote the rest of this post to some resources that may help.
Don’t like what state lawmakers do? Here’s how to recall a law in Colorado
Voters were last asked to overturn a law approved by the Colorado General Assembly in 1932. And it worked.
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Republicans frustrated with the Democratic agenda at the Capitol are pulling out all the stops trying to thwart their political foes.
NOTE: Not just Republicans. All independents and third party endorsers should also be concerned about this.
And one of the tactics they’re considering hasn’t been used since the Great Depression.
Monument Mayor Don Wilson and Mesa County Commissioner Rose Pugliese, both Republicans, say they want to ask voters to overturn legislation approved by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly to add Colorado to the national popular vote compact.
The bill is awaiting Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ signature but he has expressed his support. The measure would enter Colorado into an agreement with other states to cast its nine electoral college votes for the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote — even if that candidate doesn’t win in Colorado. The agreement would take effect only if enough states join the compact to total the 270 Electoral College votes needed to elect a president.
Why the “National Public Vote” scheme is unconstitutional
The U.S. Supreme Court says each state legislature has “plenary” (complete) power to decide how its state’s presidential electors are chosen.
But suppose a state legislature decided to raise cash by selling its electors to the highest bidder. Do you think the Supreme Court would uphold such a measure?
If your answer is “no,” then you intuitively grasp a basic principle of constitutional law—one overlooked by those proposing the “National Popular Vote Compact” (NPV).
Group launches effort to put Colorado national popular vote question on ballot
An issue committee aiming to put on the ballot the question of how Colorado casts its electoral votes in presidential elections has been formed to challenge a bill that’s likely to be signed into law.
The committee was formed by a mayor and county commissioner after the General Assembly approved legislation that would require the state’s electoral college votes to back the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.
Coloradans Vote was registered with the Secretary of State last week and the group also launched a website. The committee’s purpose is to create a “petition to keep Colorado’s electoral votes with Coloradans by opposing SB42,” according to the Secretary of State’s website.
I saw a news broadcast that announced they have the signatures they need. Too bad it wasn't online I could have gotten them about 6 more signatures just from my house.
Yet, let's not stop our thoughts there...
Fortunately I have not seen a similar move afoot in my home state of Oregon, despite the communists in power here today. I hope that nominal resistance to such a move remains potential here. There is a dichotomy between the leftist cities of Portland, Salem, and Eugene and the essentially rural rest of the state, that any such move will weaponize.
I don't exaggerate when I say weaponize either. In Grants Pass, for example, the culture is such that it is more common than not to see business owners strapped at all times. It's also shall issue state, and far more people affect concealed carry, particularly in the aforementioned cities, to avoid the confrontations with snowflakes that expect the world to be a safe space catering to their inability to cope with reality.
Oregon is not going to be a pushover for this tyrannical imposition of federal power, no matter what the commies want.
I wish you every success in preserving your remaining sovereign power in Colorado.
Thanks!
Well, this is gonna end badly.
Its now going to be West Colorado vs East Colorado.
But, if Kalifonia and New York also adopt this, then democrats may be doomed. As there are a lot of Republicans that do not vote in either of those states.
Further, with the destruction of the Democrat party, this popular vote thing will turn into a three vote for no one.
I grew up in West Colorado and yes it felt like a completely different state. We would often get pissed off at how laws and stuff voted by people on the other side of the continental divide would only impact those of us in Western Colorado adversely.
I live in a suburb of Denver now so I am on the Eastern slope, and there are plenty of us over here that are against this lunacy as well.
since when do states have authority over the federal government?
The only way to abolish the electoral college is a constitutional amendment. If the states try something else they are in violation and should be punished.
Perhaps strip the governor of citizenship and deport him?
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We will recall gay governor and his idiotic bills. People are working on it. When I found that day was elected, I said - watch out - sex ed, gun grub and other crap is coming. And all these already happened. Plus popular vote.
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