WNDThe National Popular Vote effort, which could see the 14 states with the largest populations decide the presidency, is more than halfway to its goal of legally bypassing the Electoral College established in the Constitution.
Last week, the Maine state Senate voted in support of the plan one week after both houses of the New York legislature overwhelmingly supported it.
Now the governors of both states will need to decide whether to formally back the National Popular Vote, or NPV.
The plan is more than halfway to its goal of electing future presidents via the popular vote, after Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, signed on last July.
The NPV campaign seeks to obtain the consent of the majority of the 538 votes in the Electoral College to award its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
Now 10 jurisdictions possessing 136 electoral votes are part of the plan, just over half of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring the National Popular Vote interstate compact into effect.
The states will not be required to award their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner until the NPV has signed up enough states to garner 270 electoral votes.
The NVP effort is fully partnered with a George Soros-funded election group, as WND was first to report.
The group, the Center for Voting and Democracy, received original seed money in 1997 from the Joyce Foundation, a non-profit that boasted President Obama served on its board at the time of the grant. Obama was a board member from July 1994 until December 2002.
The NPV is run by individuals with a history of support for the Democratic Party, WND found.
The Founding Fathers firmly rejected a purely popular vote to elect the president, because they wanted to balance the power of the larger and smaller states.
The Electoral College was fashioned as a compromise between an election of the president by direct popular vote and election by Congress.
Now the NPV effort could change the way Americans elect the president without amending the U.S. Constitution. The plan simply requires that enough states join through votes in their legislatures along with gubernatorial approval.
It takes two-thirds of both the House and Senate to pass a constitutional amendment to repeal the Electoral College.
To bypass the constitutional amendment process, NPV minimizes the number of states that would need to agree. Instead, once enough states agree to allot their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner, the Electoral College becomes irrelevant.
With the addition of Rhode Island to the NPV effort, the pact now has nine states plus the District of Columbia for a total of 136 of the 270 electoral votes needed. The other states signed up are Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Vermont and California.
NPV is partnered with FairVote, a project of the Soros-funded Center for Voting and Democracy that advocates for a national popular vote for president.
FairVote’s website says the organization “has nurtured and supported the National Popular Vote plan to ensure that every vote for president is equally valued no matter where it is cast.”
FairVote’s executive director Rob Richie co-authored “Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote,” a book explaining how the National Popular Vote plan would work and why he thinks the U.S. “desperately needs it.”
Fairvote regularly works with advocacy leaders at the National Popular Vote organization to assist in getting legislation passed.
Richie, executive director of FairVote since he co-founded it in 1992, is also a member of the civil society committee of the Soros-led Bretton Woods Committee, which openly seeks to remake the world economy.
Richie’s book was co-authored with NPV’s founder, John R. Koza.
In a Dec. 15, 2008, Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Jonathan Soros, son of George Soros, wrote that it was time to junk the Electoral College.
Soros’s Open Society Institute funds the Center for Voting and Democracy, where FairVote is based.
The center’s website notes the group was kick-started in 1997 with two grants – one from the Open Society and another from the Joyce Foundation.
With Obama on its board, the Joyce Foundation also funded the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation; the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute; the National Council of La Raza and Physicians for Social Responsibility, among numerous radical groups.
Meanwhile, the NPV leadership is comprised of Democratic Party supporters.
The organization’s chairman and major funder is Koza. He was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Scientific Games Inc., where he co-invented the rub-off instant ticket used by state lotteries.
Koza, who has reportedly pledged $12 million to NPV, previously gave tens of thousands of dollars to various Democratic Party committees and liberal candidates and was an Al Gore elector in 2000, the Weekly Standard reported.
Another pledged NPV leader is Tom Golisano, founder and chairman of Paychex, the nation’s second largest payroll and human resource company. He co-founded the Independence Party of New York in 1994 and ran as the party’s gubernatorial candidate.
Golisano is a registered Republican, even though he supported John Kerry for president and gave $1 million to the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
NPV’s secretary, Chris Pearson, served in the Vermont House of Representatives in 2006. In 2005, he was director of the Presidential Election Reform program at the Soros-funded FairVote.
With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/scheme-to-neutralize-36-states-votes-advances/#KKLj5e6z5zXDjPo9.99
i need to be real careful interjecting here.
I was with BRADBLOG back in the day, e.g. 2004
The dude went green tar on me.
While electronics in elections is unacceptable PERIOD and we agree on that.
I 100% disagree with his new GREEN THING.
and not just from a science point, but from actually going green myself.
meanwhile the fools will not acknowledge the spiral pattern of chemtrails that were nearly straight above my home at high altitude doing “crooked straight lines” just 2,3, or 4 days ago
His IPCC is now unvalidated by the NIPCC
But that doesn’t mean the electronic vote isn’t electronic warfare against the people of the united states. I PART ways with that fscking journalist on this ONE ISSUE alone. I know red team, blue team pentagon electron microscope suspicion of electronically doped parts. If you didn’t code it in and witness it how can it be SAFE? How can that chip be secure? I could have whole backdoor system you don’t know or can ever find, or if you do find, might not see. Add that to the fact that electronic signals themselves at what ever frequency are invisible to the human eye.
However, as much as I hate Brad’s dung, he did get me onto this electronic voting thing and then now I am off him and on BBV, and then not even there anymore. I am past BOTH
Electronic voting is fraud.
PERIOD
Forget everything else.
It’s not like Soros owns the vote machines.
Damn I messed up
I forget to mention the electoral college
I am not sure which way that should go.
But you can be sure this, FOR SURE
electronic voting, in EVERY FORMAT
is fraud
I’ll put a third comment, just saying, do your own homework on this. Don’t just believe what I just told you.
I agree, TestPilotDummy. Until the voting system goes back to accountable paper ballots, the elections will continue to be a fraud.
Great idea to save billionaires tons of money buying presidents and rigging the system.
Sure New York loves it. But Maine? Will Maine’s ripple influence NY’s tsunami?
Also, the constitution specified that US Senators were to be chosen by the state’s legislatures. An amendment changed that to popular vote.
How well is that working for us?
TestPilotDummy is right. It doesn’t matter anyway. Elections
are fraudulent, even the primaries and caucuses are rigged. We Americans have been given the proof over and over and over again, and yet we DO NOTHING about it.
Let Soros et al buy up the TV time in NY, CA, TX and whatever states are needed to bamboozle half the nation’s citizen and “guest” voters and run a glitzy reality pageant of well groomed liars. Hallelujah! we’re saved.
Founders be damned. All hail the divine right of the 50% + 1.
Our Republic is all but dead.
I grieve for my country and her loyal sons and daughters.
It won’t be just the Atlanta Braves accidentally setting the Star Spangled Shroud on fire.
The reason behind this is that 90% of the U.S. population lives in cities, so they’ll be no objection whatsoever to their Agenda 21 goals.
“yes, all of those rural people are destroying the environment, and there’s no reason they shouldn’t live in the one-room flat underneath mine.”
I lived in NYC for 45 years. I’m not going back to ANY city, because it’s an inhuman way to live. ANY city is only a warehouse for slaves, and once the novelty of bright lights is gone, you’ll see it for what it is.
Let’s see, how could we subvert a Constitutional Representative Republic into a Socialistic Oligarchy – why, you just give everyone a couple of votes – (or, as T P D says: just control who “electronically counts” the votes)
There’s sixteen of us guys and only fifteen girls = we own ‘em!
Or – There’s 150 million of ‘em = they’ll never figure it out!
Ah, the fallacies of a Democracy – it’s so easy to convince the un-brained that Socialism is bad and Democracy is good – but that still leaves the thinkers, knowing that they are fundamentally the same and wondering just how many idiots are among us –
Those who offer the most free things wins.
Agreed, Cynicles – that is until the check bounces
all welfare riots seem to start over their failure to continue to provide “My free sh*t” “Dem mofos done cut ma free sh*t”