The Colorado Supreme Court killed the idea of the ‘national popular vote’
Zachary Faria
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The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot despite him not even being charged with, let alone convicted of, insurrection will have countless negative consequences. If there is one small silver lining to the decision, it should be the death of the “national popular vote.”
Democrats have whined and complained about the Electoral College since the 2000 presidential election and escalated their whining after Trump won in 2016. In both cases, Democrats boasted that they won the popular vote, something that isn’t really real and is irrelevant to actually winning a presidential campaign.
A SUPREME ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY FROM COLORADO COURTS
They went one step further, though, with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement among 16 Democratic-run states and Washington, D.C., to award their electors to the winner of the national popular vote. There are plenty of reasons to despise this scheme. It is anti-democratic, putting your vote in the hands of millions of Americans in states far away from your own. It is probably unconstitutional. It is also probably racist.
And yet, the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision, and the support of that decision by Democrats including Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), adds another glaring reason to oppose this plan. Some 1.3 million people in Colorado voted for Trump in 2020. The state Supreme Court has decided it can remove Republicans from the ballot for crimes they haven’t been charged with or convicted of, removing roughly 1.3 million votes from the popular vote total that would go to a Republican nominee.
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Removing any Republican from the ballot under these circumstances — again, not even charged with insurrection — is an attempt to rig the election, but it would be an even more blatant attempt to cheat voters under a national popular vote system. And Colorado isn’t the only one: California Democrats want Trump removed from the ballot in the Golden State, removing another roughly 4 million GOP votes and ensuring a Democrat wins the popular vote unless GOP states retaliate by removing Democrats from their own ballots.
Any further discussion of using the popular vote to decide presidential elections should be dead on arrival. It will only further incentivize Democrats to fabricate reasons to remove Republicans from the ballot in order to guarantee Democratic victories. It was a terrible idea before. In light of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision and Democrats’ openness to it, it will only be a green light for them to wield the courts as a weapon to cheat their way to victories.