How are they going to know the “national vote”?

“National vote”.

States have the Constitutional right to determine how they select their Electors for the President, do they not? What does the Constitution say about how States choose the President?

I’m not arguing in favor of the national vote compact. I also don’t believe it will ever come to fruition. I’m merely talking about how the Constitution gives the State Legislatures the power to choose their process for casting their electoral votes as they see fit.

Do you both disagree this is what the Constitution says?

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How will a state know what the national vote total is? Is that the question?

Sure, but once that legislature decides to hold a vote, they can’t just toss the result if they don’t like them.

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What does the Constitution say?

If a legislature makes their own process say that they will hold a vote, and that vote will be included in the national vote totals, and the national vote totals will determine who their electors select for President, then it would not be “tossing the results” of the votes. It is their choice on how to select the President.

Of course it would be tossing the results. If my states majority votes for candidate A and the national vote is for candidate B, ignoring the results of my states voters is disenfranchising those voters. It would make holding the election a farce, and a sham. If your view were correct, the south after the civil war could have avoided worrying about black people voting by the simple expedient of having the legislature choose the President. When you read the constitution, don’t forget the amendments altered the original document. 14th and 15th in this instance being applicable.

Yes…

The result isn’t tossed.

Because the electors vote after the people have.

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Can you kindly point me to the clause in the Constitution that backs up this position?

Election returns.

Who reports the results and when?

Do you honestly not know how national elections work? This does not seem like an honest inquiry from you. If you genuinely do not know how voting works, or how results are tabulated, then please say so, and I can point you to a litany of literature than can inform you on how voting works in the United States.

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The results aren’t tossed.

The votes of the state go into the national totals, do they not?

I understand what you are stating…your terminology is wrong.

It’s wrong because you don’t vote for President. The electors do.

And the electors are chosen by the state legislators.

So your mode of influence as to how the electors of your state are chosen and how they will vote is via the state legislature.

Don’t want your state to be part of the Interstate Voting Compact?

Then vote in legislators that won’t vote for your state to become part of the compact.

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Go ahead.

The states…long before the electors vote.

Do you? I’m not stating anything. I’m asking how do the electors know how the national vote went, when and from whom?

I usually try not to disagree with @Safiel who spends way more time looking at court decisions than I do.

But based on my reading of the decision, I don’t see how this impacts the Interstate Compact.

Unless…you are thinking that them using the express terminology “state’s vote is setting this decision up to be the precedent called upon if the Compact is passed in enough states so their combined total adds up to 270.

Because there will be legal action to prevent it if that happens.

Which I don’t think will happen anyway.

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