MoveOn.org
Petition Demands: ‘Abolish the Electoral College’
by Aaron Klein 11 Nov 2016
A petition
currently trending on the website of the George
Soros-funded MoveOn.org activist
group calls for the electoral college to be abolished.
The petition, titled, “Abolish the Electoral College,” has garnered
98,235 signatures as of this writing. The website says it is seeking
100,000 signatories – this after 131,741,000 voted.
The text states:
“The Electoral College has outlasted its usefulness. It
is part of the constitution, written when communication was by pony express.
Voters currently living and voting in a ‘red’ or ‘blue’
state are disenfranchised, because their vote doesn’t matter. Eliminating the
electoral college means: no ‘swing’ states getting all the attention and all
the campaign stops and all the empty campaign promises. The electoral members
are selected by the two main political parties, Republican and Democrat,
disenfranchising all other voters, independent, Libertarian, etc. End it now.”
MoveOn.org is being used as the platform for the petition
by author Thomas Reich, and the group’s main petition website prominently features the petition.
The petition comes as the latest tallies seem to show Hillary
Clinton winning
200,000 more in the national popular vote, while Trump is the clear Electoral
College winner.
The move follows another petition
launched on MoveOn’s website after Tuesday’s vote, also authored by Reich, that
called for the Electoral College to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton
despite Trump’s Electoral College majority.
That petition has since been removed from the left-wing
group’s website.
PJ Media
reported the petition was titled, “Tell the Electoral College to
cast their votes for Hillary Clinton.”
Meanwhile, over 2 million people have signed a Change.org
petition
also demanding that the Electoral College ignore their states’ votes and make
Clinton the president.
That petition states:
On December 19, the Electors of the Electoral College
will cast their ballots. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald
Trump will win. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. Even
in states where that is not allowed, their vote would still be counted, they
would simply pay a small fine – which we can be sure Clinton supporters will be
glad to pay!
We are calling on the Electors to ignore their states’
votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton.
The petition calling for the Electoral
College to be eliminated does not explain how that monumental task is to
be achieved. However, there is a separate movement titled the National Popular
Vote, or NPV, which would guarantee the
presidency to the winner of the popular vote without ratifying the Constitution
and without the full agreement of every state.
The movement’s website explains:
The U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1) gives the
states exclusive control over awarding their electoral votes: “Each State shall
appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of
Electors….” The winner-take-all rule was used by only three states in 1789.
The National Popular Vote interstate compact would not
take effect until enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral
votes—that is, enough to elect a President (270 of 538). Under the compact, the
winner would be the candidate who received the most popular votes from all 50
states (and DC) on Election Day. When the Electoral College meets in
mid-December, the national popular vote winner would receive all of the
electoral votes of the enacting states.
I previously reported
on the NPV scheme:
The NPV campaign seeks to obtain the consent of the
majority of the 538 votes in the Electoral College to award electoral votes to
the winner of the national popular vote instead of the winner of the popular
vote in each state.
Aside from New York, other states that already signed up
are the heavily blue states of Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Washington, Vermont, California and Rhode Island. The District of
Columbia also has joined the pact.
The states will not be required to award their electoral
votes to the national popular vote winner until the NPV has signed up enough
states to garner 270 electoral votes.
…The Founding Fathers firmly rejected a purely popular
vote to elect the president, because they wanted to balance the power of the
larger and smaller states. The Electoral College was fashioned as a compromise
between an election of the president by direct popular vote and election by
Congress.
Now the NPV effort could change the way Americans elect
the president without amending the U.S. Constitution. The plan simply requires
that enough states join through votes in their legislatures along with
gubernatorial approval.
It takes two-thirds of both the House and Senate to pass
a constitutional amendment to repeal the Electoral College.
To bypass the constitutional amendment process, NPV
minimizes the number of states that would need to agree. Instead, once enough
states agree to allot its electoral votes to the national popular vote winner,
the Electoral College becomes irrelevant.
MoveOn.org
George
Soros was a contributor for MoveOn.org,
the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Children's Defense Fund, the People for the
American Way, the Harlem Children's
Zone, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Peter W. Barca
was a member of the Bretton Woods
Committee, and an elector for the 2012 Electoral
College in (WI).
George Gresham was
an elector for the 2012 Electoral
College in (NY), and is a director at the Children's Defense Fund.
Margaret A.
Williams was a communications director for the Children's Defense Fund, and the president of the Fenton Communications.
MoveOn.org is a Fenton Communications client.
Dolores Huerta was
an elector for the 2012 Electoral
College in (CA), and is a director at the People for the American Way.
Scott Stringer was
an elector for the 2012 Electoral
College in (NY), and is a comptroller for New York (NY).
Michael R.
Bloomberg was the mayor of New York
(NY), a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Michael A. Nutter
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was an elector for the 2012 Electoral College in (PA).
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and an adviser for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
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