Resolutions › Resolution 1: Resolution Opposing “National Popular Vote Compact”

WHEREAS, the Electoral College to elect the President of the United States was deemed the best method by the Founding Fathers to ensure state sovereignty in the presidential election process, affording weight to both large and small states; and

WHEREAS, the Electoral College has been tested and proven itself in over 56 presidential elections as the method to preserve our representative form of democracy, resulting in the election of a President by a majority of electoral votes, not a mere plurality; and

WHEREAS, the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” if successfully implemented, would he constitutional Electoral College process of electing the President, and would radically change the way we elect our President through a questionable legal maneuver by changing the rules of presidential elections via a compact between as few as 11 states instead of the normal 38 states needed to amend the Constitution; and

WHEREAS, the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” if successfully implemented, would make a non-member state’s electoral votes irrelevant, because the member states’ electoral votes would number 270 or more, and they would award their votes to the national popular voter winner, effectively destroying the Electoral College, undermining state authority, and giving more-populated media markets disproportionate power; therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the South Dakota Republican Party opposes the attempt to undermine the U.S. Constitution and the Electoral College by way of the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact;” and, further be it

RESOLVED, the South Dakota Republican Party fully endorses retaining the constitutionally approved and time-tested Electoral College method of awarding electoral votes to candidates to win the office of President United States of America; and be it further

RESOLVED, the South Dakota Republican Party strongly encourages our state legislators and Governor to reject the “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.”