Assembly Democrats surrender your right of suffrage without a shot

Americans have fought and died for the right of suffrage — No taxation without representation!

We’ve changed the Constitution to award the right to vote to former slaves with the 14th Amendment, to women with the 19th and to 18-year-olds with the 26th.

On Tuesday, 27 Assembly Democrats advanced the process toward giving away your right to vote for president and vice president, approving legislation that would award all five of Nevada’s Electoral College votes to whoever is the popular vote-getter nationwide, no matter how we, the people of Nevada, cast our ballots.

They might as well cancel the election entirely. It would be a meaningless sham unless by some statistical fluke Nevada’s comparative handful of votes tipped the outcome nationally.

Democrats, still smarting over the 2000 election in which Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College vote, have come up with an end-run on the Constitution, devising this affront to common sense and the rule of law. If enough states with a majority of the popular vote embrace this plan it supposedly would take effect.

Never mind that amending the Constitution legally requires approval of three-fourths of state legislatures.

Under this benighted concept the Legislature might as well vote to award the state’s five Electoral College votes to the highest bidder. I hear they are scrapping the bottom of the barrel in Carson City, financially as well as intellectually. We could pick a proxy. Award our votes to the Democratic National Committee directly and avoid the mess and fuss of an election altogether.

How about a lottery? All voters pitch in $5 for the state’s dwindling coffers, then pull a name out of a hat and that person gets to either pick our presidential winner or sell it to the highest bidder. Free markets and all that.

The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, and the courts have ruled that includes the concept of one person, one vote: “The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing — one person, one vote.”

Yes, I know the national popular vote is the ultimate one person, one vote, but that's what we want, get there constitutionally.

Those 27 Democrats are attempting to usurp your vote. Don’t you think it is time to usurp theirs? They did swear to uphold the Constitutions of the nation and the state. Does this not violate that oath?

Contact every one of them and tell them what you think of this vote.

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Vote on AB413 on Assembly Final Passage at 12:07 PM on 04-21