I posted that almost two years ago. August 8, 2011 I received an e-mail message from the bumblers who are promoting this indicating that with California the "Plan Has Now Been Enacted by 9 States Possessing 49% of Electoral Votes Need to Activate Bill".
That sounds pretty good, maybe even good enough to take effect in time for the 2012 presidential election. The media seems to have no clue that this movement even exists much less that it may be activated, changing all their boring conventional wisdom.
However, the proponents confuse the issue by being incredibly unclear:
"The National Popular Vote bill has now passed 31 legislative chambers in 21 jurisdictions, including ... New York.:
Say what? Where the heck does it stand in New York state? I had thought that it passed the legislature but maybe it was only one house. I decided to send a message to the most recent Gov. Cuomo, which I did by filling out one of those forms on the state web site. Here is my message:
What the heck? Maybe the National Popular Vote web site has some clue hidden?
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/states.php?s=NY
Ah.
ALBANY, June 7, 2011 The Republican-controlled New York Senate passed the National Popular Vote bill by a 47-13 margin, with Republicans favoring the bill by 21-11 and Democrats favoring it by 26-2. Republicans endorsed by the Conservative Party favored the bill 17-7. The bill now goes to the New York State Assembly. The bill passed the New York Senate in 2010 when the chamber was controlled by Democrats and has now passed with the chamber controlled by Republicans.
So, I need to contact my member of the New York State Assembly, a person who has never responded to an e-mail message from me: Amy Paulin. Another online form to fill out. Here goes nothing.
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