re: Maine joins unConstitutional National Popular Vote states

It’s unconstitutional because it invalidates the election results within the state’s own borders. Why bother even having an election if the electors are going to throw out those results in an effort to award votes to a different candidate that more people voted for in other states? That would be like the people of Maine voting for a Senator and then having the governor’s cabinet choosing the candidate that Vermont voters prefer.

It’s well known that the Electoral College was developed precisely to keep larger states with large population centers from completely overriding the will of those living in smaller states outside those centers. Larger states are able to express the will of their larger populations in the House. There is no single election for the President; there’s 50 different states races that are intended to be independent from each other. Ergo, a state cannot consider the electoral results from outside of its state. To invalidate the will of the people from one state due to the preference of people from other states is thoroughly undemocratic and a violation of the tenets of representative government.

This whole movement is being built up in Democratic Party-controlled states, or, rather, states that have been voting Democratic in the Presidential election in recent history. It’s a move by the DNC to institute one party rule.