Meme - Dylan LeClair: "They actually have no idea lol"
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz: "How can we have had record turnout and twenty million fewer votes cast nationally?"
"No way there were 20 million fewer votes than 2020 with a massive 25 million surge in voter registration and record turnout. NO WAY."
The Progressive Guy @Progies: "He had no ground game. He was out fundraised."
The USA Singers: "It's pretty weird that with record voter turnout all over America, there were 18 million fewer votes cast than in 2020."
Mueller, she wrote: "I hope in the coming days someone is able to explain how we had record turnout but fewer votes than 2020. Both of those things can't be true."
Clear proof that Trump rigged the 2024 election!
C3 on X - "Wrap your head around this… Democrats claim people that broke our immigration laws would not break our election laws."
Gemini on X - "JUST IN: A new study finds that 80% of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote"
Tyler Winklevoss on X - "A voting system that doesn't authenticate voters with an ID has no integrity"
Cynical Publius on X - "From the guy who invented Facebook. Not exactly a lightweight."
Leader John Thune on X - "If they really think showing an ID is “reasonable,” as the Democrat whip claimed, then they can support this clean photo ID amendment. I look forward to seeing where Democrats really stand."
DataRepublican (small r) on X - "Senator Thune, you might want to remember H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021. It banned photo ID in voting. The Democrats you're trying to convince already voted to ban photo ID nationwide. You are going to have to perform actual leadership."
Larry Thompson on X - "Ethan Pease, a self-described libertarian and non-supporter of Trump or Biden, testified before a Wisconsin public hearing in December 2020 about “massive irregularities” he witnessed while hauling mail-in ballots in Madison. According to Pease, on November 4, 2020—the day after Election Day—a senior USPS official informed him that an order came down from the Wisconsin/Illinois chapter to locate 100,000 misplaced ballots, dispatching employees at 4 a.m. to “find” them. He also alleged overhearing talks of backdating postmarks on late-arriving ballots to make them appear timely, in a state where Trump lost by a razor-thin 20,682 votes—flipping 10 electoral votes to Biden. “I’m not a Trump supporter. I’m not a Biden supporter either, but something profoundly wrong occurred in Wisconsin during the Presidential election and the American people have a right to know about it!” Pease stated emphatically."
JoeLange on X - "This is all about the “voting registrations.” If the voting registrations are exposed in the blue states, it will reveal massive nationwide voting fraud. A “conspiracy” to steal elections. This is why the DOJ under Bondi, is suing for those voter registration rolls. The democrats are refusing to turn them over because they know, that DOGE has ALREADY determined which Social Security numbers used for voter registrations are either not citizens or dead people.
“Under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), states are required to develop computerized statewide voter registration lists and assign a unique identifier to each voter.”
“For voter registration, applicants must provide either:
•A driver’s license number, or
•If they do not have one, the last four digits of their Social Security number.”
A “voter ID,” isn’t what the democrat party fears. The democrats FEAR a “proof of citizenship” REGISTRATION to vote. A voter ID that must match up with a voter registration that proves “citizenship,” is the death knell of the democrat party.
Q drop 2463 Nov 09, 2018 6:50:16 PM EST Will recent [expected] voter fraud actions by the D party provide support for a VOTER ID LAW? VOTER ID LAW = DEATH OF D PARTY. Boomerang Suicide? Q
Can you see what’s coming? “Will recent [expected] voter fraud actions by the D party provide support for a VOTER ID LAW?” What actions have the democrats taken recently? They’ve filed lawsuits to prevent turning over their voter registration rolls and have won in court.
“In Michigan, a federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking detailed voter information, including names, birth dates, addresses, and partial Social Security numbers, stating the department failed to cite any legal obligation for states to provide such data.”
“Similar rulings followed in other states, effectively blocking the DOJ’s push to collect and cross-check voter data with federal immigration databases.”
Do you think that’s the end of the story? How do you FORCE the democrat states to turn over their voter registration rolls? Did you catch that the democrats don’t want to turn over personal information connected to Social Security numbers? Those Social Security numbers cross-checked against immigration databases, are going to reveal massive fraud throughout the entire election system. So how do you get those voter registrations from democrat states? Trump has recently been telling everyone what’s coming. Trump is going to “declassify” massive amounts of EVIDENCE proving “foreign interference” in the 2020 election. Trump is going to prove that the 2020 election was stolen and it was a coordinated “conspiracy” between the democrat party and “foreign entities.” That makes our ENTIRE election system, a “national security” risk and the president has “plenary power” over “national security” issues, according to the Constitution. At that point. Trump will demand voter registration data from every state in the country and the courts will then back him. Every state will be FORCED to comply and anybody who doesn’t, becomes an “enemy combatant.”
youtu.be/AmDIg3LZmzs?si=H3S_YfAABFt5OxIg
The EVIDENCE of “foreign involvement” in our elections will shock a lot of Americans. But when the fraud within the voter registrations is revealed, it will shock everyone. The democrat party won’t survive what’s coming. They can’t win elections without illegals and dead people voting. But participating in a “conspiracy of treason,” is a whole other ballgame. This is going to trigger a lot of arrests and will change EVERYTHING. Trump will be fully in charge of “securing” our election system, because it’s a “national security” issue and the American people will be fully behind him. All the “safeguards” that Trump has mentioned for years, will be put in place, in order to protect the American people’s Constitutional right to vote. A new election and a MAGA super majority, ready to work with Trump to safeguard our future and the Golden Age."
The SCIF on X - "Democrats issued over 5.5M illegals Social Security numbers and registered them to vote in order to steal the 2020 election and change the voting map of the United States by adding seats through the U.S. census. They also enrolled illegals in Medicaid, and qualified illegals for max Social Security benefits. Elon confirmed and warned us."
Illegal immigrant allegedly voted in 5 presidential elections in key swing state - "An illegal immigrant from Mauritania was charged with fraudulent voting after allegedly casting ballots in Pennsylvania in the last five presidential elections, prosecutors said. Mahady Sacko, a 50-year-old Philadelphia resident who was ordered to be deported from the U.S. in 2000, "allegedly unlawfully voted in person in the 2024 general election for federal office," and, "falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen in order to vote and register to vote," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. An FBI special agent investigating the case said Pennsylvania state voting records showed Sacko also "voted in the following federal elections: the 2008 general election, the 2012 general election, the 2016 primary election, the 2016 general election, the 2020 primary election [and] the 2020 general election." "Sacko voted in person for each of these elections, except for the 2020 primary election, in which he voted by mail. On each occasion, Sacko falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen," the agent wrote in a criminal complaint."
Colombian National Convicted of Voter Fraud; Federal Benefit Fraud; and Identity Theft Offenses - "A Colombian woman, unlawfully residing in Boston, was convicted today following a five-day jury trial in federal court in Boston of identity theft offenses, including receiving rental assistance, Social Security and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, as well as voter fraud under the stolen identity. The defendant also applied for a United States passport and obtained a Massachusetts Real ID and eight other state IDs. Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, 59, was convicted of one count of false representation of a Social Security number; one count of making a false statement in an application for a United States passport; one count of aggravated identity theft; three counts of receiving stolen government money or property; and one count of fraudulent voting... Orovio-Hernandez also used the stolen identity to cast a fraudulent ballot in the November 2024 presidential election. In addition, Orovio-Hernandez improperly received approximately $400,000 in federal benefits: $259,589 in Section 8 rental assistance benefits from October 2011 through January 2025; $101,257 in Social Security disability benefits from July 2014 through January 2025; and $43,348 in SNAP benefits from April 2005 through January 2025."
The SCIF on X - "Dominion contractor testified that over 30,000 ballots were scanned multiple times in the Michigan 2020 election. Dead people were voting and that the poll books were cooked and easily off by 100,000 registered voters, with turnout rates over 100%. She also states that her along with multiple other election workers were threatened not to come forward, lost their jobs, and being harassed because they came forward and told the truth. This can not stand for how we live and treat people who tell the truth in America."
96% Of Dominion Voting Systems Political Donations Went To Democrats
C3 on X - "So… There’s Medicaid fraud but no voter fraud. There’s welfare fraud but no voter fraud. There’s daycare fraud but no voter fraud. There’s hospice fraud but no voter fraud. Everywhere we look there’s major fraud but no voter fraud? The voter fraud in America is staggering."
James O'Keefe on X - "BREAKING: CALIFORNIA MASS IN-PERSON ELECTION FRAUD CRIMES CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Recordings Show Homeless Are Paid By Petitioners To FORGE Real Voters’ Signatures To Sign Ballot Petitions On Skid Row, Thousands of Times Disenfranchised Voters Say They Are OUTRAGED After Being Shown Their Signatures Are Forged
Undercover in Los Angeles, James O’Keefe uncovered an election fraud pyramid scheme operating on Skid Row. In Part II of Cash for Ballots, series hidden camera footage shows petition circulators paying homeless individuals $2–$3 per form to sign ballot petitions using the names and addresses of real registered voters and forging their signatures. Circulators provided printed lists of voters, assigned identities, and directed the homeless individuals exactly what to write, monitoring them to ensure the information matched so the circulators get paid.
“You only write what I tell you to write.”
“Your name’s Robert.”
“If you mess up, I can’t get paid.”
The conduct captured appears to violate multiple California felony statutes, including Elections Code §18613 (signing another person’s name to a petition), Penal Code §470 (forgery), Elections Code §18601–18602 (paying for petition signatures), and Penal Code §470 (forging signatures). The OMG team and Cam Higby visited addresses tied to the voters' names being used. One resident said the named voter had not lived at the address for nearly a decade, yet election mail was still being delivered.
“Doesn’t live here, uh I bought this house nearly 9 years ago. The only reason I know that name, is because we still get her mail.”
“i always feel really weird when I get the voting ballot. Cause like, you know, obviously that’s fraudulent.”
This is Part II of an ongoing investigation. The Citizen Justice League will continue to release more footage of these crimes caught on tape."
Andrew Kolvet on X - "In a Kamala +6 state, the VA special election on redistricting from a 6-5 state to 10-1 state in Democrats’ favor, the proposal promises to “restore fairness.” What an absolute crock."
Legal Phil on X - "There is no plausible argument that voters actually know what they are voting on, based on this description. You might as well just phrase the amendment as, “are dogs good boys?” Democracy dies in darkness, indeed."
Matt Van Swol on X - "Democrats are masters of using flowery language to disguise their true intentions. “Gender affirming care…” “Undocumented immigrants” “Equity” Once you understand this, the whole world pretty much opens up. Can’t unsee it."
Andrew Kolvet on X - "Don’t forget “minor attracted person” instead of pedophile."
"Fairness" is anything that pushes the left wing agenda
@amuse on X - "ELECTION INTEGRITY: Minnesota began issuing drivers licenses with automatic voter registration to thousands of Somali noncitizens and illegal aliens in 2023. As a result, the DOJ has issued a federal grand jury subpoena to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon's office to determine how many noncitizen are on its voter rolls."
Left wingers like to claim that there is no fraud becasue no one has found any. But when you cry bloody murder whenever other people want to see the voter rolls to investigate fraud, it's pretty clear that it's because they're actively covering it up
Lisa’s Latest Leftist Bootlick - "Murkowski’s complaint about federalizing elections seems to have come about 160 years too late. Please check the Reconstruction Amendments, especially the 15th Amendment, which prohibits any attempt to abridge the voting rights of an American citizen based on a previous condition of servitude. The 19th Amendment, introduced in August 1920, further federalized elections by banning states from denying citizens the franchise because of sex. By then, states were already giving women the vote, but having the federal government impose that change on the states that were not further weakened their control of elections. Then please look at the 24th Amendment prohibiting Congress or the states from requiring a poll tax to vote. That amendment, which further federalized elections, was passed in January 1964, during the tumultuous civil rights era. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 further weakened any effective state control of elections. It placed entire districts of the country, and not only in the South, under special federal supervision to make sure that black voting there was proportionate to the number of blacks in the district. Areas thus designated required “preclearance” from the attorney general or a federal court to allow any significant electoral changes. This form of federal control lasted well into the 21st century, when Congress ceased to renew the selection of certain areas for intensive supervision, although parts of the Voting Rights Act remain in force. Christopher Caldwell in The Age of Entitlement wrote that this act imposed a “second constitution” on the U.S. in place of our original one. Whether that act had that effect, it certainly represented a giant step forward toward federalizing our elections. Murkowski must know, as a sitting senator, that the Democrats have been trying to pass their own federal voting law, which they will undoubtedly do if they can take back the Senate and if the executive doesn’t stop them. This would prohibit any requirement for voter identification nationwide. In California, poll officials are in fact forbidden from even asking for voter identification. Such bizarre laws are intended to remove any possible barrier to Democratic election fraud... Lisa Murkowski’s main asset as a national figure, however, is the drooling praise she predictably receives from the mainstream media as a “moderate” Republican"
Threads - "If the government can automatically register people for the military draft they can automatically register people to vote."
Left wingers are already screeching about federalising elections, so you can imagine how this will go down
Meme - "Number of states won, by voter ID requirements
No ID RequiredHarris 14 Trump 2
ID Required (non-photo) Harris 4 Trump 6
ID Required (photo) Harris 2 Trump 23"
How to Stop the Minority-Rule Doom Loop - The Atlantic
The usual amazing left wing ignorance on display. If nothing else, the author doesn't understand why all states get equal representation in the Senate. But that's a common left wing complaint, since they don't understand US civics
Meme - ""THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL VOTER FRAUD... THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF IT""
"98,000 ARIZONA VOTERS FOUND REGISTERED WITHOUT VERIFIED CITIZENSHIP"
Dustin Grage on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Minnesota Elections Director Paul Linnell admits that illegal aliens can vote in state elections with a driver’s license.
REP. ANDERSON: “So the answer to my question is yes. Under that scenario, someone could. They get their driver’s license, again, because we give them to anybody here. They register to vote, it doesn’t match with the Social Security number, so they’re flagged. But they come in as long as they have an ID, which is that driver’s license, and they sign that they are, you know, eligible to vote, they can vote, and they’re then no longer flagged.”
PAUL LINNELL: *word salad*
REP. ANDERSON: “Okay, so the answer is yes to my question.”"
Clearly, there's nothing wrong with giving illegal immigrants drivers' licences
Meme - "MA 36% Republican 0 seats
CT 42% Republican 0 seats
ME 46% Republican 0 seats
NM 46% Republican 0 seats
NH 48% Republican seats
RI 42% Republican 0 seats
VT 32% Republican seats
HI 38% Republican 0 seats
DE 42% Republican 0 seats
Democratic baby: "TeXaS sTaRtEd It""
Meme - Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett: "You literally drew this atrocity." *bizarre district shape*
Governor Kath... @GovKathy..: "The Supreme Court has been chipping away at our elections for years. It is clearly carrying out Donald Trump's will with this decision."
Hakeem Jeffries on X - "The decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn the will of more than three million voters will not stand."
The Rational Animal on X - "Let me get this straight. Virginia voters created an independent redistricting commission in 2020 specifically to end partisan gerrymandering. Democrats then bypassed their own commission, rushed a constitutional amendment through while over a million people had already voted, and tried to turn a 6-5 seat advantage into 10-1. Obama backed it. Jeffries campaigned for it multiple times. House Majority PAC spent $38 million on it. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled the process violated the state constitution. Now Jeffries calls it "unprecedented and undemocratic" when a court enforces the constitution against his party. He calls it "voter suppression" when Democrats are stopped from suppressing five Republican districts into one. And he invokes Jim Crow to describe a ruling that upheld the very redistricting reform Virginia voters chose in 2020. You did not lose your voice. You lost your gerrymander. There is a difference. And the fact that you cannot tell the difference is exactly why you should not be drawing maps."
The Associated Press on X - "BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Virginia's bid to restore a congressional map favoring Democrats."
Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta on X - "The Supreme Court is corrupt."
AG on X - "You get the game here, right? They file an absurd motion asking the Supreme Court to rule on a case where it clearly has no jurisdiction. Then when it obviously refuses (w 0 dissents), they accuse it of corruption to justify trying to stack the court. Shameful."
When even Ketanji Brown Jackson does not dissent, you know it's ridiculously clear
Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - Outrage is erupting across Virginia after Abigail Spanberger signed HB965 into law, effectively rendering Virginians’ presidential votes null and void, with the measure handing the states electoral votes to the national popular vote winner regardless of states results."
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "Understand what this means. If high-population blue states like NY and CA produce significant enough turnout, the members of this ‘compact’ will turn over their electoral votes to the Democrat even if their own voters chose to elect a Republican. This will tremendously incentivize vote fraud in blue states to pad the numbers, as well as incentivize as much illegal immigration as possible for the same reason. This is also why Democrats so vehemently oppose Voter ID. The idea now is to get as many warm bodies into blue states as possible and get them onto voter rolls in order to steal national elections via the ‘popular vote compact’. The electoral college was designed specifically to prevent a tyranny of the larger states, and it has worked as intended for 250 years. But now because Democrat policy is so incredibly radical and unappealing to national voters, and because the party is incapable of moderation or changing direction, they’re simply going to undo the very foundations of the country in an attempt to seize power. Understand where we are here."
Justin J. Pearson on X - "What happened in the State of Tennessee was the largest and swiftest disenfranchisement of Black people that we've seen in at least a century. It's on all of us to organize, mobilize, and participate in bigger numbers than their maps account for."
Cynical Publius on X - "To repeat: Democrat gerrymandering schemes ghettoize black voters. Instead of black voters being in multiple districts across a state (forcing politicians across the state to address their concerns) they are shoved into a single district so the rest of the state can ignore those concerns. Democrat gerrymandering is racist, and hurts most of all the people it purports to help. This race baiting scoundrel is promoting racism against his own race."
Meme - ABC11 EyewitnessNews @ABC11_WTVD: "2024 election fact check: Noncitizens can't vote, and instances are 'vanishingly rare'"
Breitbart News @BreitbartNews: "Gavin Newsom warns ICE agents will "show up around voting and polling booths to chill participation" What an odd thing to say..."
Western Lensman on X - "Karen Bass is asked about the idea of non-citizens being able to vote in LA city elections.
Bass: “I think we need to explore it."
Of course."
Lauren Chen on X - "When it comes to non-citizens voting, the left is literally saying "No, of course that's not happening... but maybe it should?""
Report: Six illegal immigrant criminals deported last year remain active on Michigan’s voter rolls - "The same day Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini flagged nearly a dozen more noncitizens on Michigan’s voter rolls, online sleuths were highlighting numerous criminal illegal immigrants with active registrations, including some with a voting history spanning multiple elections... The records show six criminal illegal immigrants on DHS’ “Worst of the Worst” database arrested in Michigan have active voter registrations despite arrests by federal immigration officials, including two that have voted in multiple elections. The voter registrations remain active despite their deportations last year and numerous assurances about clean voter rolls from Benson, who is overseeing her own election for governor as the Democratic frontrunner... Forlini’s findings, which have been dismissed by Benson as a Republican plot to “dismantle people’s faith” in Michigan elections, follow many other examples of illegal voters confirmed by the Secretary of State herself. Benson testified before Congress in September 2024 that “there is no evidence that noncitizens are voting,” but was forced to admit otherwise a month later when Chinese national Haoxiang Gao, a 19-year-old University of Michigan student, cast an illegal ballot that was counted in the 2024 election because there’s no means to retrieve it. Then in April 2025, Benson admitted 15 others likely cast illegal votes during the 2024 General Election based on a cross reference between the QVF and the driver’s license database, bringing the total to at least 16. In January, Benson confirmed yet another noncitizen cast multiple illegal votes during a review of Forlini’s findings. When Benson took office, Michigan had approximately 7.5 million registered voters, which was about 300,000 fewer than the voting-age population of roughly 7.8 million. Over the next several years, the state added 700,000 registrations, many automatically through driver’s license renewals, bringing the total to 8.2 million registered voters for a voting-age population of about 7.9 million by 2022, the same year Democrats regained full control of state government for the first time in four decades. If or when Benson will remove the remaining active noncitizen voter registrations is anyone’s guess. The Secretary of State has repeatedly refused to answer questions regarding the removal of noncitizens from the QVF. Despite the obvious problem, Benson could not provide data on the number of noncitizen voters she’s removed from the state’s voter rolls when confronted by The Detroit News reporter Beth LeBlanc in January. It was the same deal in February, when The Midwesterner confronted Benson following Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s final State of the State address. At the same time, Benson has campaigned against Republican efforts to require proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote on both the state and national level, while also pushing through a dozen election rule changes in February that make it easier to cheat and harder to challenge illegal votes. More recently, the Secretary of State vowed to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring citizenship verification for elections."
Left wing logic: Democratic states refuse to turn over voter rolls, therefore there is no proof of non-isolated cases of non-citizens voting
Robby Starbuck on X - "ChatGPT can’t find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days AFTER Election Day, to overtake 2nd place. It couldn’t find 1 example in all of American history. That’s what’s happening with Nithya Raman & Spencer Pratt. Los Angeles has 3rd world country elections."
Bill Melugin on X - "Reminder: Last year, a woman in Orange County, CA was charged w/ felonies after she successfully registered her dog to vote in CA and casted multiple mail in ballots in the dog's name in CA elections. She was only caught because she turned herself in and her attorney said she wanted to "make a point". The dog's vote was successfully counted in the 2021 recall election of Governor Newsom, but the dog's ballot in the 2022 primary was rejected. Why the difference? According to the OC DA's office: "Proof of residence or identification is not required for citizens to register to vote in state elections nor is it required to cast a ballot in state elections. However, proof of residence and registration is required for first- time voters to vote in a federal election. As a result, the 2022 primary ballot cast in [the dog's] name was challenged and rejected." The woman, Laura Lee Yourex, has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. She has no prior criminal history. Prior to her arrest, she mockingly posted on social media that her dog, Maya Jean, had voted, and had continued receiving mail in ballots, posting photos of Maya Jean with her ballots."
PoIiMath on X - "We should not prosecute people who cast illicit votes in order to show how easy it is to cast illicit votes. Honestly, they should be rewarded like software developers who discover security bugs. We should be paying people to harden our voting systems against fraud."
The Electoral College Workaround That Isn’t - "When Virginia’s chameleon governor, Abigail Spanberger, allied the Commonwealth with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) on April 13th, she fired a shot which may be the last in the long-running battle to strip states of their remaining independent power. Consider the trajectory. The Commerce Clause has been beaten like a rented mule until it either means nothing or covers everything — depending on who’s doing the interpreting. The 17th Amendment nationalized Senate elections, stripping state legislatures and governors of their ability to protect state interests within the federal government. Now this compact threatens to remove the last meaningful vestige of significant state power by negating the Electoral College. I seem to remember on September 9, 2021, during the rollout of the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate, Stephanie Ruhle described using OSHA authority as “the ultimate workaround for the federal government to require vaccinations”, and Ron Klain, Biden’s White House handler, lovingly retweeted it, indicating that was exactly what the Biden cabal had in mind. Let’s be frank, Democrat strategy has long included affection for such “workarounds.” The NPVIC has the feel of a workaround precisely because it is one. The Constitution did not create a national plebiscite for president; it created a federal system in which states, as political units, select electors. Yes, Article II gives state legislatures authority over the manner of appointing electors, but that authority exists within a constitutional structure, not outside of it. The compact attempts to convert a state-based system into a de facto national election without using the one mechanism the Constitution provides for structural change: amendment. That alone should raise a red flag. In my unscholarly constitutional scholarship, I believe the Compact Clause sharpens the problem. Article I, Section 10 is explicit: “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress… enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.” States are barred from entering agreements that alter the balance of power without congressional consent. This is not a trivial administrative pact about shared resources or border disputes — it is a coordinated effort by multiple states to determine the outcome of a federal election by acting in concert. That is exactly the kind of collective action the Compact Clause was designed to restrain. Calling it a mere exercise of state authority ignores the fact that it only functions because states are binding themselves together to produce a national effect. The National Popular Vote Compact has never survived judicial scrutiny, largely because it has never actually faced it. I’m frankly amazed it hasn’t been directly challenged in court already because it literally is a compact between states without Congressional approval. There is also a more fundamental issue of representation. Under the compact, a state can be compelled to award its electors to a candidate rejected by a clear majority of its own voters. That isn’t just politically awkward — it cuts against the basic republican premise that governments derive legitimacy from the consent of the governed within their jurisdiction. Winner-take-all systems already compress minority votes, but they still reflect the will of the state’s electorate. The NPVIC severs that connection entirely, subordinating a state’s voters to the aggregate preferences of other states. The NPVIC looks less like a faithful use of constitutional flexibility and more like an attempt to bypass constitutional design. If the country wants a national popular vote for president, the Constitution provides a legitimate path to get there. What the compact offers instead is a clever but strained reinterpretation that achieves the same result while sidestepping the discipline of amendment. That may be politically expedient, but constitutionally, it sits on far shakier ground than its advocates admit. Democrats have wanted to scrap the Electoral College every time they lose a presidential election, denouncing it as an “undemocratic anachronism.”... If the EC seems at odds with conventional wisdom, that’s not the fault of the Electoral College itself, it’s that the Constitution has been incrementally altered to weaken the states and transfer power to Washington that the Founders never intended. The 2016 election illustrated the EC’s purpose perfectly. Hillary Clinton’s 2.6-million popular vote margin was almost entirely the product of one state — California, where she beat Trump by over 4 million votes. Without the Electoral College, the presidency would effectively be decided by California and New York. The EC prevents that concentration of national power in a handful of dense urban centers. It’s also intellectually dishonest to claim that the candidate with the most popular votes has some inherent claim to the presidency. The 2016 campaign — like every campaign before it — was waged at the state level, with candidates focused on winning electoral votes in competitive states. It was not a national popular vote campaign... Abolishing the Electoral College is another step toward converting the individual states from sovereign political entities into mere administrative districts — units that exist primarily to distribute federal funds while their governments serve no meaningful independent purpose. The 17th Amendment started that process with the Senate. Eliminating the EC would complete it. In the end, dismantling the Electoral College may be the final step in transforming the United States of America into something resembling the Panem of the Hunger Games — a collection of dependent districts wholly subordinate to the Capitol."
