Recent Content by ottootto

  1. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    National Popular Vote is based on Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives each state legislature the right to decide how to...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 2, 2019 in forum: Politics

  2. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    Federal law (Title 3, chapter 1, section 6 of the United States Code) requires the states to report the November popular vote numbers (the...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 2, 2019 in forum: Politics

  3. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    Maine and Nebraska state laws are not "carve outs." There is and was no one preferred method envisioned by the Founders. Unable to agree on any...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  4. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    Given the historical fact that 95% of the U.S. population in 1790 lived in places of less than 2,500 people, and only a few states let males, with...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  5. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    The current winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes is not in the U.S. Constitution. It was not debated at the Constitutional...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  6. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    The constitutional wording does not encourage, discourage, require, or prohibit the use of any particular method for awarding a state's electoral...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  7. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    It does NOT satisfy most people who have studied it. Dividing more states’ electoral votes by congressional district winners would magnify the...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  8. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    The bill does not use a popular vote only. All of the presidential electors from the enacting states will be supporters of the presidential...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  9. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    Colorado's proposal would not "disqualify their vote." It ensures that every voter is equal, every voter will matter, in every state, in every...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  10. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    The only low population state that enjoys being a swing state has been New Hampshire. The Cook Political Report, as of Jan. 10, 2019, believes...
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  11. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    More American voters thought Gore and Hillary were the better candidates.
    Post by: ottootto, Feb 1, 2019 in forum: Politics

  12. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    Colorado votes would be included in the national popular vote. The goal would be to get the most popular votes from all 50 states and DC. A...
    Post by: ottootto, Jan 31, 2019 in forum: Politics

  13. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    The U.S. Constitution says "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ." The U.S....
    Post by: ottootto, Jan 31, 2019 in forum: Politics

  14. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    State election laws are not identical now nor is there anything in the National Popular Vote compact that would force them to become identical....
    Post by: ottootto, Jan 31, 2019 in forum: Politics

  15. Constitutional Crisis: Colorado Dems Pass Bill To Eliminate Electoral College

    “The bottom line is that the electors from those states who cast their ballot for the nationwide vote winner are completely accountable (to the...
    Post by: ottootto, Jan 31, 2019 in forum: Politics