The Electoral College requires presidential campaigns and political parties to reach beyond their castles, into the smaller states and its citizens.
On the other hand, a National Popular Vote (NPV) requires states to replace their electoral votes with the popular vote count, irrespective of in-state citizen vote results. NPV’s outcome is “democracy” in its worst form: mob rule.
The Founders rejected "Direct Democracy via popular numbers" in favor of state-by-state elections representative of regional and local issues.
The “democratic” French Revolution used "popular choosing" to elect legislatures. It used a guillotine to un-elect legislatures. In eight years, starting in 1791, France guillotined legislative persons comprising a National Assembly, a Legislative Assembly, the First Republic, and a Directory.
Napoleon Bonaparte ended French mob rule democracy, adding 15 more years of a long history of European unending war.
NPV opens new opportunities for election fraud and eliminates the states' power over elections and opposition to oppressive federal power and regulation:
- NPV supports political power over citizen well-being.
- NPV violates the Constitution’s Article I, Section 10 Compacts prohibition without Congressional consent.
- NPV is an outright avoidance of the Article V amendment process
- NPV is a deceitful workaround of a predominately successful but infrequently “inconvenient Electoral College” process.
- NPV fails to address ballot access for disenfranchised voters, improving candidate/vote attention to issues, risky election system products, and gerrymandering.
- NPV further empowers a federal grip on individual state management.
Are citizens engaged in this process?
No! Legislatures have predominately enacted NPV without consulting constituents. NPV is now supported by four small states (DE, HI, RI, VT), eight medium-sized states (CO, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NM, OR, WA), 3 big states (CA, IL, NY), and Washington, D.C., with a total of 196 electoral votes.
On the other hand, Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Nevada rejected its negation of their citizens' votes.
NPV claims to become effective when a sufficient number of states surrender a total of 270 electoral votes.
The interests of metropolitan-to-maple syrup commerce must stand equal if the government is to serve all the people. Governance is not the outcome from the few states who dominate by population.
Once given this overarching power, Washington, D.C., will not consult the nation’s citizens for guidance. What works in New York will be applied from North Dakota to Alabama to Idaho to Kentucky, whether it's a good fit or not.
It is essential citizens pursue self interest and their state's interests through the Article V Convention of States. The government will never defer to citizens.
Without an Article V Convention of States, the federal government will continue with its abuse of power through minimization and elimination of local control, the imposition of arbitrary regulations, unlimited debt creation, and to bow before one-size-fits-all federal programs.
Citizen initiatives enacted to benefit local interests and regional preferences will cease to exist.
