Thread: Dick Morris: Dems Attempting to 'Fix Presidential Elections'

Dick Morris: Dems Attempting to 'Fix Presidential Elections'

Thursday, 17 Apr 2014 04:06 PM
By Aaron Stern

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Democrats are bypassing the Constitution as they try to replace the Electoral College with the popular vote as the means by which Americans elect presidents, says Dick Morris.

Supporters of the initiative says it levels the playing field by giving all voters the same amount of power, as opposed to grossly empowering voters in swing states, who enjoy the most attention of presidential candidates during the height of election season.

Morris says it's a bold-faced attempt to neuter the GOP.

"If this thing passes, Republicans will never again win a presidential race and that's why all the Democrats are lining up behind it," Morris told John Bachman and J.D. Hayworth on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV.

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The legislatures of 10 states and the District of Colombia have passed laws to pledge all of their electoral college representatives to select the winner of the national popular vote, and the measure has already passed one house in 10 other states. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to control the presidential selection. If the 10 states that have adopted the initiative in one house pass it into law, 242 electoral votes would be delegated to the winner of the national popular vote.

Morris, who penned a column on the topic for Newsmax earlier this week, said that Democrats are subverting the Constitutional amendment process with their state-to-state tactics. Constitutional amendments must be ratified in 38 states.

Morris said that if presidents are decided by popular vote, urban areas in traditionally Democratic states would gain new power while the doors to voter fraud would be kicked open.

"First of all, it would [spur] the urban Democratic machines in places like Chicago and D.C. and New York that don't work too hard at getting out the vote because the states are blue anyway, but now if the popular vote matters, they'll work like demons in getting out the vote including committing voter fraud," he said.

"Secondly, right now, if things come down to one state like Florida in the Electoral College, you could look at voter fraud in Florida and probably stop it from ruining the election, but if the fraud could be committed in any precinct in the 50 states and it counts in the popular vote, it's too large a problem ever to be able to either track or to solve."

Morris was adamant that this empowerment of urban areas through the popular vote would unfairly benefit Democrats.

"So there's a reason that of the 20 states that have either adopted this or one House has adopted it, 18 of them are blue states… it's because this is a conspiracy by the Democratic party to fix presidential elections for the indefinite future," he said.

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Dick Morris: Democrats Conspiring to Rig Electoral College, Law Passed in 9 States So Far

APRIL 15, 2014 10:11 AM

• ELECTION

(News Max) – A plan, now stealthily making its way through state legislatures with astonishing speed, would junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to the winner of the popular vote.
The plan involves an Interstate Compact where states would commit to select electors pledged to vote for the national popular vote winner regardless of how their own state voted. When enough states pass this law, sufficient to cast 270 votes which is the majority of the Electoral College, it will take effect.
The Electoral College will become a vestigial anachronism.
So far, nine states and the District of Columbia, casting 136 electoral votes, have joined. This is halfway to the 270 needed to put the compact into effect. The ratifying states are: Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, Vermont, California, and Rhode Island.
Both houses in New York have passed it and it’s on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s desk.
It has already passed in the House in Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon. These states, plus New York, represent 107 votes. Combined with the others they are up to 242 votes. They need 270.
Who is pushing this?
All of those ratifying voted for Obama.
The movement is funded, in part, by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a George Soros-funded election group.
Essentially, it is an end-run around the regular constitutional amending process. Rather than securing a two-thirds majority of each house of Congress and three-quarters of the states, this proposal would take effect when a simple majority approves it.
Why are Democrats pushing this plan?
Democrats usually see a smaller percentage of their people go to the polls than Republicans do.
Under the electoral vote system, they figure why beat the drums to get a high turnout in New York City when the state will go Democrat anyway? But, if it’s the popular vote that matters, the big city machines can do their thing — with devastating impact.
But are Democrats planning to go further and let noncitizens vote? If the Popular Vote Movement succeeds, there will be nothing to stop them and everything to gain by doing so.
The Constitution does not require that the franchise be limited to citizens. It’s up to the states. If the popular vote is all that matters, won’t many blue states bulk up their popular vote totals by letting noncitizens vote?
Historically, several states have let noncitizens to vote. The last to do so, Arkansas, repealed its law in 1926. The Harvard Political Review reminds us that noncitizen voting was “once commonly accepted in the United States.”
California and other states have been moving to obliterate the difference between citizens and noncitizens, letting even illegal immigrants serve on juries or become lawyers.
A few Republicans are supporting this plan, providing the window dressing the Democrats need. They dismiss the possibility that any state would let illegal immigrants and other noncitizens vote. But why? If the Democrats can steal the White House by doing so, why wouldn’t they do it?
Republicans need to kill this proposal and they better get busy doing it. Some small states are backing it because they are tired of all the attention being focused on swing states. But Republicans must stand firm and not yield to the temptation to back it.
How can we stop the Democrats from ravaging our political system?
The key battles are coming up in Arkansas and North Carolina. In both states, one House has passed the compact. We need to stand firm in these two red states and block it from taking effect. Republicans in Minnesota and Wisconsin, both blue states, need to stop ratification in their states.
And, Republicans should focus on stopping the second house from ratification in those states where only one house has acted.
Our democracy depends on it.

http://www.newsmax.com/Morris/morris.../15/id/565661/

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