Delaware! A Spectator State...

By Elizabeth Scheinberg

TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS TO SUPPORT A NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT

Delaware is ignored in presidential races by both parties because candidates have no reason to pay attention to the concerns of voters in states where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind. The 2012 campaign is currently being conducted in a 9 "swing" states — making Delaware and most other states into mere "spectators" to the presidential election.
Tell your State Legislators to support the National Popular Vote Bill. The bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. This would make every vote equal throughout the United States. That, in turn, would ensure that every Delaware voter would matter in every presidential election.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/de/ Learn what needs to be done to make Delaware's presidential votes count!

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Anonymous said...: I think this is a terrible idea. What this bill would do, is deny states their actual say.

For example, if Delaware voted 60-40 for President Obama, but the nation voted 50.1 to 49.9 for Romney, then Delaware's electoral votes would go to Romney based on the voters in other states.

While the popular vote sounds and feels good, our founding fathers created the electoral college as a system designed to protect the nations leaders from the ignorant masses (main reason) but also to protect the rights of states, just like assigning 2 senators to each state regardless of size.

In addition there are additional states rights' concerns, specifically the right of states to set the manner in which it selects its electors.

http://www.lwvvc.org/NPVArgument_con.pdf

I believe the National Popular Vote is a proxy for the rejection of the 10th Amendment and not in the best interests of individual states.; October 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Anonymous said...: WHEREAS the popular vote in some States other than New York has been unfairly affected by barriers to voting, such as lifetime disenfranchisement due to felony conviction, requirement for government-issued photo ID and/or other documents, which creates unfair restrictions on certain groups of voters such as minorities, the poor, the disabled, and the elderly; and

WHEREAS many States use paperless electronic voting machines that cannot be independently audited, and only a few States perform any audits of their elections, so that in most states malicious tampering and innocent errors that increase or decrease vote tallies cannot and will not be detected; and

WHEREAS federal legislation would be required to compel all states to participate in meaningful audits of their elections for national offices, but Congress has not passed such legislation during the past nine years during which it has been introduced, and

WHEREAS New York State is the only state that worked diligently for four years to obtain electronic voting equipment that consists of secure machines and software by requiring electronic voting equipment to pass testing by an independent testing lab prior to purchase, so that our vote tallies are likely to reflect the votes cast; and

WHEREAS New York’s participation in the NPV initiative would constitute our endorsement and toleration of insecure voting systems, and of prejudices and restrictions against minority and less powerful voting groups; and

WHEREAS New York’s participation in the NPV initiative would be contrary to the principles of New York State and would compromise the voting freedoms and principles we endorse;

THEREFORE the Village Independent Democrats urges our State Assembly and State Senate to oppose any legislation supporting NPV.; October 18, 2012 at 10:07 PM