I would hope the Supreme Court would rule this illegal. If you want to change the Constitution the go through the amendment process.

https://thehill.com/homenews/s...ng-electoral-college

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) will sign a measure to award his state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, moving a countrywide coalition one step closer to circumventing the Electoral College.

In an interview Sunday, Polis called the Electoral College an “undemocratic relic” of the nation’s past, one he wants to see relegated to the dustbin of history.

“I’ve long supported electing the president by who gets the most votes,” Polis told The Hill. “It’s a way to move towards direct election of the president.”

Colorado will become the 12th state to join the national popular vote interstate compact. Those 12 states and the District of Columbia, which has also passed a popular-vote bill, account for 181 electoral votes, just under 90 shy of the 270 votes a presidential candidate needs to win the White House.

The compact will not go into effect until the coalition includes states that add up to 270 electoral votes or more. Once it does go into effect, states that are part of the coalition would award their electoral votes en masse to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.

Supporters of the compact say relying on the popular vote would expand the presidential map, incentivizing candidates to travel to states beyond the traditional battlegrounds of Florida and Ohio.

“Under a national popular vote, the 38 nonbattleground states long ignored by presidential campaigns will be powerful again, because no candidate can win 270 electoral votes and the White House without also winning the popular vote across all 50 states and the District of Columbia,” said John Koza, who chairs National Popular Vote, the group that supports the interstate compact.

In 2016, nearly 19 of every 20 events the two major presidential candidates held were in just 12 battleground states. Most of those events were in just six states — Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan. Combined, President Trump and Hillary Clinton held official campaign events in 26 of the 50 states, leaving 24 solidly red and blue states completely out of the action.

Colorado has come close to joining the compact before. The state Senate was the first legislative chamber in the nation to pass a popular-vote bill in 2006, but that bill died in the state House.

At least 11 other states have advanced popular-vote bills in recent months through at least one chamber of their respective legislatures. If all of those states complete those bills, it would add another 80 electoral votes to the compact, leaving them just nine votes shy of reaching the 270 marker.

So far, only reliably blue states have joined the compact, including California, Massachusetts, New York and Washington. But red states like Arkansas, Arizona and Oklahoma and purple states like Michigan and North Carolina have passed the measure through at least one legislative chamber controlled by Republicans, giving backers hopes of breaking through with the GOP.

I don't quite understand the point of this? If I understand correctly the state no longer wants to have a say in the presidential election and will rely on the judgement of other states in order to elect the president? Will the residents still bother with voting after this passes? If they do vote, what is the point?

Also known as “Let California and New York rule the country.”

The only point to voting would be to hope to push your candidate into winning the national popular vote.

They will have pretty much disenfranchised the entire state. What if Colorado vote overwhelmingly for one candidate, but another wins the popular vote?

This is just stupid.

My view of these types of things has changed. Anymore, anything that speeds up the inevitable split of our country is a good thing imo. Let’s just hurry up so those states who are self suffcient can leave the rest behind. I sincerely hope liberals get their socialistic eutopia. I’ll go with the sane states who still believe in personal reaponsivirly and freedom.

I am not surprised by this “stunt”. And WA state backs this idea too. The Democrats want every advantage, and by eliminating the electoral college, they will have the advantage. They want to stay in power by any means possible.

Not intended to offend right leaning CO forum members but WTF happened to CO? Why is this state turning into a blue cesspool (electorically speaking)?

Everything is cyclical. Just wait until a Republic wins the popular vote. The Dems will cry. They'll vote to overturn this awful bill. . .

This seems more like another "feel good" measure that would have zero legal standing at the federal level.

Time to go back to the state senate choosing the governor ...

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Originally posted by divil:
Not intended to offend right leaning CO forum members but WTF happened to CO? Why is this state turning into a blue cesspool (electorically speaking)?

Californians running away from the monster that they created and no longer could afford to feed. Same is happening in various other states on the East Coast as well as Texas. The lefties cultivate a destructive environment and when it reaches critical mass, they run towards greener pastures (normally RED states) for their lower taxes and better business environment and once settled, commence to vote for the same stupid shit they are running from to begin with.

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Originally posted by divil:
Not intended to offend right leaning CO forum members but WTF happened to CO? Why is this state turning into a blue cesspool (electorically speaking)?

We’ve been overrun with people who are fleeing California and bringing their bullshit ideas that destroyed it. Boulder and Denver sway every election. A blue cesspool is putting it mildly.

I support this as long as these are agreed to:

-only US citizens with proper ID vote
-welfare queens/kings are not allowed to vote, clearly it's a conflict of interest
-no voting until you have established residency for 4 years in a new state
-no voting from convicted felons, even if they have served their sentence
-voting age dropped to 16 along with age to buy/consume alcohol, join the military, sign legally binding contracts, buy/carry concealed weapons (long and handguns)
-2 term limits for senators
-government receives same healthcare as their constituents

How about that for a compromise?

A more honest approach for California is to divide the electoral votes by party instead of winner take all. I think 4 states do it that way. Seems fair and within the spirit of the law.

Fake news.

11 other states haven’t “joined” the compact.

Having one chamber at the state house pass a bill doesn’t mean that it has any chance to become law.

Yes, of course the usual suspects have passed it.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
This seems more like another "feel good" measure that would have zero legal standing at the federal level.

There is debate on that; Article II gives states the power to appoint electors "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct" plus cast electoral votes. Many legal minds think it may be constitutional by parsing words. Others disagree.

IMO it is not given the intent of the founders, but I am not an expert. More reason to ensure good SCOTUS nominees.

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Originally posted by jljones:
Fake news.

11 other states haven’t “joined” the compact.

Having one chamber at the state house pass a bill doesn’t mean that it has any chance to be one law.

Yes, of course the usual suspects have passed it.

This article says it past both houses.

This is the tyranny of the majority. Remember how Hitlery “won” because of the popular vote?
If this passes, there’s no point for “fly over country” to vote. The urban areas of the coasts will be the only ones that need to vote.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by jljones:
Fake news.

11 other states haven’t “joined” the compact.

Having one chamber at the state house pass a bill doesn’t mean that it has any chance to be one law.

Yes, of course the usual suspects have passed it.

This article says it past both houses.

Again, this OP article is FAKE NEWS.

I have zero fucks to give what Colorado does. The article plainly states-

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Colorado will become the 12th state to join the national popular vote interstate compact. Those 12 states and the District of Columbia, which has also passed a popular-vote bill, account for 181 electoral votes, just under 90 shy of the 270 votes a presidential candidate needs to win the White House.

And then it states later-

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So far, only reliably blue states have joined the compact, including California, Massachusetts, New York and Washington. But red states like Arkansas, Arizona and Oklahoma and purple states like Michigan and North Carolina have passed the measure through at least one legislative chamber controlled by Republicans, giving backers hopes of breaking through with the GOP.

Colorado isn't "joining" 11 other states by what the article says. Only the other communist held shitholes listed above have "joined". The rest of the states, per the article, have passed through "at least one legislative chamber". Actual number of states is 5, not 12 by my count unless this is just a really shitty written article.

This is more fake news. More "you can't win, so why try" bullshit just like we repeatedly see from the liberal media. Just like the Hill telling us Hillary was a lock, so don't bother, this is the same sort of fish wrap. The communists can't win without trickery, and this article is more of that trickery.

Unapologetic commie bastards.