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“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.” —Lord Acton

Another day, another report of far lefties stealthily trying their darnedest to rig our electoral system and usher in permanent progressivism, our Constitution be damned. This time it’s in the form of eliminating the role of the Electoral College, established by our Founding Fathers during the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Last week I read with a skeptical grain of salt a story from Mr. “Romney Will Win By a Landslide” Dick Morris about the Left’s quiet attempt at circumventing our Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College’s role in presidential elections, replaced with a popular vote model. My gut reaction was that ol’ Morris was grandstanding. Seems it’s true. Under the National Popular Vote Compact model, each of our fifty states would award its electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote, rather than to the candidate who wins the state’s vote. The effort has been quietly snaking its way through many state governments. The compact needs 270 votes in order to take effect, and has already gained the signatures of governors in Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, California, Rhode Island, and Washington. New York’s Governor Cuomo recently pledged his states’ 29 electoral votes in support of the measure, bringing the total votes to date to 165. It has also gained approval by at least one legislative body in Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon. And—here’s a shocker—the District of Columbia, with three electoral votes, has also signed the agreement.

Notice any obvious similarities with this particular group of states? Morris points out that “all of those ratifying voted for Mr. Obama, as did eight of the 10 one-house states.” The movement is being pushed by the Center for Voting and Democracy, an election group partly funded by none other than George Soros.

Current Electoral College Map (click to enlarge)

But it’s not only conservatives, who’ve also been oft accused of attempting to rig the system in their favor, sounding the alarm. Liberal attorney Alan Dershowitz is against this obvious run-around our Constitution. Rather than the regular amending process requiring two-thirds majority of each house of Congress and three-quarters of the states, this proposal would take effect if and when a simple majority approves it.

“…the compact ‘certainly violates the spirit of the Constitution. Plainly, the founders of the Constitution did not intend for there to be a conspiracy among certain states to essentially abolish the Electoral College…The amendment probably would not succeed, but to use this method of circumvention, it seems to me would encourage other states to use other methods of circumventing the Constitution when it came to racial equality or other things,’ Dershowitz said.

And though former Michigan Representative Pete Hoekstra, a Republican, says it’s a discussion worth having, circumventing our Constitution, and the voices of the governed, is not the way to do it.

“‘It’s a serious discussion. It’s a debate worth having. If we’re going to change it, let’s do it the appropriate way: Get the super-majority votes in Congress, have the states ratify it, have a national debate.’”

It conjures up the secrecy of ObamaCare. If it’s such a grand idea, why the cloak and dagger treatment?

While the National Popular Vote Compact faces an uphill battle to collect the 270 votes it needs for implementation, I’m firmly in the Watch Them With An Eagle Eye camp. Given that we have one of the most irresponsible, disinformation-spreading media in recent history, we cannot count on them to keep us informed and outline honestly the dangerous ramifications of this proposal: Permanently altering our electoral system, rigging a centuries-old model in favor of Democrats whose base voters heavily populate cities and urban centers, forever silencing the voices of rural communities and less-populated states. With a complacent, distracted voting populace, hand-in-hand with the complicit media, this slap-in-the-face to our Founders might just have a fighting chance of being implemented, under the radar, bringing with it the guarantee of rampant voter fraud on behalf of forced progressivism. While a popular vote model may seem harmless on its surface, these three words are all we need to convince us that this “tyranny of the majority” is a very, very bad idea: President Al Gore.

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