Action Alert: House Democrats Close to Abolishing Electoral College!
House will vote Monday or Tuesday on Bill to Force Virginia Into "National Popular Vote Compact"
The National Popular Vote Compact is a far-Left priority agenda item, and this past Friday its pressure on the House Democrat Caucus brought it back to life. A week ago, HB 177 (Levine, D-Alexandria) died in the House Privileges and Elections Committee 10-12, with three Democrats joining all nine Republicans to kill the measure. Since the Senate version had already been withdrawn, it appeared dead for the session. Then, after a barrage of left-wing activism pressured House Democrats, it was brought back on a reconsideration vote at Friday's committee meeting. All three Democrats who opposed it last week switched their vote. Now the bill will be voted on Monday or Tuesday by the full House.
The Compact is an agreement among various states whose legislatures agree to award their state's Electoral College votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote, no matter how their own individual state votes. (Note that Hillary Clinton won the national popular vote in 2016.) It would go into effect when states totaling at least 270 electoral votes (the number needed to win the presidency) agree to join. It is a backdoor attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution and abolish the framer's Electoral College system without going through the amendment process and is therefore unconstitutional. But we can't risk a court's bad interpretation, so we should stop it now!
The bottom line is that Virginians should decide who wins their own electoral votes, not California and New York, which have already joined the compact. Abolishing the Electoral College would mean candidates would ignore small and medium states and campaign only in large metropolitan areas. Once elected, they would have no cause to serve "flyover country" and would cater only to big states and cities. The Electoral College was created by our Founding Fathers to ensure the president would be a consensus choice of a broad cross-section of the country, but some legislators want to do an end-run around this system because they haven't liked its results.
Action: Contact your Delegate NOW and urge them to vote NO on HB 177!
