Reply To: Informal Survey: The Electoral College

WolfishMusings:

I’d agree with your plan, except, as UCLA professor Daniel Lowenstein explains in http://bit.ly/f0TA3B in his defense of the electoral institution, a candidate may die or become ineligible sometime in between November and the meeting of the electors, as happened in the 1872 election. While Democratic candidate Horace Greely only was pledged 66 votes, if it would have been he and not Grant who won, it would be problematic.

toto:

The enormous problem with the National Popular Vote is that let’s say it is passed by the 2011-2013 State legislatures. Then, in the 2016 election, New Jersey’s population votes Democratic but the country votes Republican. The problem is that by the national vote deciding the State’s electors, the State itself – the people and/or the incumbent legislature – has no say. Such a scenario is completely unconstitutional.