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Apparently, the Electoral College is just not "Fair ENOUGH"!
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State UpdatesJanuary 21, 2025 - by Libby Palanza, Maine Wire. "Maine Republicans Seek to Withdraw from National Popular Vote Interstate Compact"
"A group of Maine Republicans have introduced legislation that would withdraw the state from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement among the states that could bring about sweeping changes to how the President of the United States is elected." "The bill introduced Tuesday to withdraw from the Compact was sponsored by Rep. Barbara A. Bagshaw (R-Windham) and cosponsored by House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor), Rep. Jeffrey Sean Adams (R-Lebanon), Rep. Alicia Collins (R-Sidney), and Rep. Mark C. Cooper (R-Windham)." The bill is LD-252 and has been sent to the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee. April 2024 - MAINE ERASES ITSELF In what we believe was a cowardly way to enact legislation, MAINE has officially erased itself as a State in choosing the CEO of the United States Federation. AUGUSTA, ME - 4-15-24 - Governor Mills Allows National Popular Vote to Become Law Without Her Signature. Governor Janet Mills, Maine.gov Mar 19, 2024 - The Senate and the House have bioth passed the NPV bill #LD-1578 over the last two weeks. The bill is back in each Chamber of concurrence votes, and then it will head to the Governor for her signature. MAINE is in the process of ERASING ITSELF AS A STATE in the election of the CEO of the U.S. Federation of States! Feb 29, 2024 - The Veterans and Legal Affirs Committee in the House has PASSED the National Popular Vote scheme. A vote on the floor of the House could happen at any time. January 13, 2024 (Update) - Regrettably, Democrats were able to kill the Pro-Electoral College bill, LD-1502, in Committee. The bill would have made it illegal for Maine to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Cmpact scheme. The NPV bill itself is alive and is in Committee, with a hearing held on in in early January. Maine is at High Risk for succumbing to giving away its control of Maine's Electoral Votes to Non-Mainers. April 2023 - State Rep John Andrews, R-S. Paris, ME, has introduced a bill that SHOULD be supported! House bill #LD-1502 simply says that, as long as Main is using Ranked Choice Voting to count its popular votes, that Maine shall never join the NPV compact scheme! Apri1 2023 - 9 Democrats and 1 House Republican introduced the National Popular Vote scheme as Bill #LD-1578 November 2022 - National Popular Vote proponents have consolidated their control of Maine State government in the November elections. We are changing Maine's status to HIGH RISK to join the NPVIC scheme. June 2021 - Both the House and the Senate have declared the NPV bills DEAD in Committee as of 6/02/2021. April 2021 - On April 5, the HOUSE version of the NPVIC - which is identical to the senate version - was introduced by Democrat Rep Arthur Bell. March 31, 2021 - On 3-30-21, Democrat Senator Dave Miramant introduced the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact scheme as Bill LD-130. At this date, Miramant is so far the bill's only sponsor. December 2020 - We expect a big push by NPVIC in the new Legislature in January 2021. The Associated Press reports that the paid consultant staff of NPV is targeting certain States in 2021 and 2022. Critics of Electoral College Target States, Push for Popular Vote Compact We expect a big push from the California-based National Popular Vote office in Maine in early 2021. Maine's Legislature had given the NPVIC Bill some added traction in early 2019 before finally stopping it. Maine's Governor had said that she would likely sign the NPVIC if it reached her desk and the make-up of the Maine Legislature is of members who tend to be in favor popular voting and the NPVIC. Bill LD-418 & HP-327 were introduced in January 2019 by 7 Democrat Representatives and 2 Democrat Senators. It's Final Disposition status is listed as "Ought Not To Pass Pursuant to Joint Rule 310, March 19, 2019". GIVING AWAY the Control of Maine's Votes!
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Send Your Letter to the Editor - Almost always, your letter needs to be 200 to 250 words or less. Be courteous and simply express your opinion about why you believe that it is in Maine's best interests to remain in control MAINE's Electoral Votes, and that Maine needs to REJECT the National Popular Vote interstate Compact every time that it is brought up. Maine (Online) - Maine Wire Bangor - The Bangor Daily News Brunswick - The Times-Record Central Maine - CentralMaine.Com Kennebec - The Kennebec Journal Lewiston - The Sun Journal Portland - Press Herald Waterville - The Morning Sentinel LET US KNOW if you know of a News Media Outlet that should be on this list - Contact Us here. In the News ...MAINE - 1-21-25 - "Maine Republicans Seek to Withdraw from National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" by Libby Palanza, Maine Wire.
AUGUSTA, ME - 4-15-24 - Governor Mills Allows National Popular Vote to Become Law Without Her Signature. Governor Janet Mills, Maine.gov AUGUSTA, ME - 3-20-24 - Maine House tables bill to allocate Electoral Votes to national popular vote winner. WPOR FM 101.9-FM News, Sage Communications, inc. WASHINGTON, DC - 3-13-24 - Lawmakers back reform as Maine is poised to join National Popular Vote movement. By Evan Popp, NewsFromTheStates.com PORTLAND, ME - 02-07-24 - Effort to use national popular vote to decide presidential winner hits snag in Maine. by Randy Billings, Portland Press-Herald PORTLAND, ME - 01-09-2024 - Maine Lawmakers consider a bill that would change how the State votes for president. by Nora Hogan, WMTW TV8 News (ABC) WASHINGTON, DC - 02-20-2023 - The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is gaining steam. It still makes no sense. by Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner SALEM, OR - 12-12-2020 - Critics of Electoral College Push for Popular Vote Compact. By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press. NOTE: Selsky, in our view, has a number of factual errors in this piece about the history of and functioning of the Electoral College. These are errors that continue to be circulated by the NPV sales team. WASHINGTON, DC - June 2019 - National popular vote bill dies in Maine, THE HILL BANGOR, 6-17-2019 - Maine House reverses itself again to oppose effort to link Electoral College to popular vote. By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News. A lot can happen in a few days. AUGUSTA, 6-13-2019 - Maine closer to NPV. Passage would bring compact to within 70 votes. By Associated Press, The Oregonian AUGUSTA, 6-12-2019 - After a rare tie in a House vote, 73-73, Maine House passes bill to join national popular vote compact. By Paul Dwyer, WABI TV5 News 
Being able to elect Presidential candidates with far fewer votes than are required today. Easily, in a field of just 7 candidates, a President could be elected by the NPV States alone with over 70% of the U.S. population voting AGAINST him or her! THIS is the real change they are after.
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