The latest attack perpetrated by progressive-statists strikes at the republican nature of our constitutional system through the destruction of the electoral college.
No doubt Project Vote, the ACORN spawn and the Secretary of State Project are behind this tyrranical endeavor. We already know how these groups sought to dilute the vote throught the NVRA and HAVA. Opposition to Voter ID and a push for Election-Day Registration furthers the agendas of these groups by hijacking the popular vote, especially when the voter-rolls are not purged of fraudulent voters.
We can see the connection between all of these endeavors through the actions of Missouri’s own Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan. While the current Missouri legislature would never pass the electoral college law being pushed by these groups, Carnahan’s meddling with the state elective process aims at diminishing the conservative vote within the state. And the DOJ appears complicit in this attack through its failure to prosecute Carnahan for failing to clean the voter rolls, the same rolls she will rely on for her Senate run.
This all matters because of the first principles embodied in the Constitution. Federalist 39 discusses the electoral college and our republican form of government envisioned by the Constitution:
The immediate election of the President is to be made by the States in their political characters. The votes allotted to them are in a compound ratio, which considers them partly as distinct and coequal societies, partly as unequal members of the same society. The eventual election, again, is to be made by that branch of the legislature which consists of the national representatives; but in this particular act they are to be thrown into the form of individual delegations, from so many distinct and coequal bodies politic. From this aspect of the government it appears to be of a mixed character, presenting at least as many federal as national features.
The election of a president consists of a combination of both popular and state will. However, the popular will is represented as the state. We can further extend this analysis by examining the process of electing the president should a candidate not receive the required majority within the electoral college. Election of the president passes to the House of Representatives, and the 12th Amendment outlines this process:
But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representatives from each state having one vote….
Ultimately, states determine the presidency. Regardless of their populations, each state receives one vote. Under the progressive-statist plan to eliminate the electoral college, a state’s popular will would be rejected for the national will. I cannot think of anything more un-democratic than changing someone’s vote without his consent! But this is the plan states like Masachusetts now encourage.
Imagine (as painful as this might be) the progressive-statist utopia in which universal voter registration (without ID) exists, and the electoral college does not. Voter fraud would run rampant as challenges to one’s qualifications to vote would be virtually non-existant. Illegals, dead people, and individuals voting in multiple jurisdictions could cast votes with impunity. A high burden would be placed on challengers to prove that these individuals were ineligible, since everyone within the United States would presumably be eligible (without ID).
Do not forget that universal voter registration would further diminish the nature of Senators as representatives of states. The 17th Amendment has already caused much damage to our constitutional system, as Senators are no longer beholden to the interests of their respective states. And this was one of the first shots in the war waged against our Constitution by the progressive-statists.
Eliminating the electoral college constitutes their latest shot. It encourages voter fraud on a massive scale. As the election returns come in from the eastern seaboard, states like California could add massive amounts of fraudulent votes to sway an election. Corrupt municipalities like Chicago could withhold returns until midnight to generate the desired vote total, as they have already done in the last century.
This is the nature of the beast we are fighting. And this is only one of the many stealth attacks being carried out by the progressive-statists.
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