Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy

The 2016 election caused many pundits and citizens alike to decry the Electoral College. This book explains the dangerous and unconstitutional implications of the National Popular Vote Bill which is quietly passing in state houses across the nation.Ever since the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College Congress has tried to overturn it. The latest attempt is taking place not in Congress but in state legislatures around the country where a well-financed campaign by a private California group calling itself “National Popular Vote” (NPV) is proposing an “interstate compact” to circumvent the process for amending the U.S. Constitution. If adopted by states representing a majority of electoral votes the signatory states would bind themselves to ignore the popular votes within their respective states and instead allocate their electoral votes to the candidate whom the media proclaimed to be the “national popular vote” winner. In this new history of the Electoral College law professor Robert M. Hardaway lays bare the constitutional loopholes that have allowed this movement to succeed in states representing approximately half the electoral votes necessary to purportedly bind those states to ignore the popular vote of the people within their respective states. The presentation of the information in this book to state legislatures considering the compact resulted in complete reversal of preconceived perceptions about how presidential elections should be conducted.Exposes the National Popular Vote movement which seeks to abolish the Electoral College by making readers aware of this its agenda financing and goal of effectively amending the constitutional process by a means that takes place under the radar of the general publicPresents as succinctly and clearly as possible the dubious constitutional grounds for the Compact as well as the ramifications if it were to somehow be approved by the U.S. Supreme CourtIllustrates exactly how this movement is succeeding in state after state precisely because the public is uninformed about the Electoral CollegeShows how the abolition of the Electoral College and inauguration of a national popular vote” would actually result in an outcome that is contrary to the goals of many of its supporters...See More