{"id":23228,"date":"2026-04-15T15:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/spanberger-pushes-nation-to-brink-signs-law-rendering-states-votes-null-and-void\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:23:23","slug":"spanberger-pushes-nation-to-brink-signs-law-rendering-states-votes-null-and-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/spanberger-pushes-nation-to-brink-signs-law-rendering-states-votes-null-and-void\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanberger Pushes Nation To Brink, Signs Law Rendering State\u2019s Votes \u2018Null and Void\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"2\">Bringing the United States perilously close to dismantling its constitutional foundation, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/bill-details\/20261\/HB965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HB965<\/a> into law, officially entering the Commonwealth into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). The decision has sparked immediate outrage across the state, as critics realize the measure effectively renders the individual votes of Virginians \u201cnull and void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"3\">By signing this compact, Spanberger has agreed to hand Virginia\u2019s 13 electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the national popular vote \u2014 regardless of how the people of Virginia actually cast their ballots. With Virginia\u2019s entry, the movement is now a terrifying 48 electoral votes away from taking effect. The current total stands at 222 votes, or 82% of the way to the 270-vote threshold required to fundamentally upend American elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"5\">It is no coincidence that the states rushing to bypass the Constitution represent a monolithic partisan bloc. To date, every single state that has joined the compact is a blue state, moving the country toward a system where a few deep-blue urban centers could dictate the presidency for the entire Union. The list of members includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-path-to-node=\"6,0,0\">Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Vermont, California, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, and now Virginia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"7\">This partisan rush to ignore state boundaries flies in the face of Alexander Hamilton\u2019s warnings in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed68.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"100\">Federalist No. 68<\/em><\/a>. Hamilton cautioned that the Electoral College was not a mere suggestion, but an\u00a0\u201cexcellent\u201d\u00a0system designed to protect the Republic from the very \u201ctumult and disorder\u201d that a direct popular vote invites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"9\">The Founders were explicitly wary of a direct popular vote, fearing it would allow a \u201cdemagogue\u201d with \u201ctalents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity\u201d to manipulate the masses. Hamilton argued that the presidency should not be a prize for the most famous or the most populist, but should be determined by an intermediate body of electors \u2014 men \u201cmost likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"10\">By moving toward a national popular vote, Spanberger and the NPVIC proponents are discarding what Hamilton called a\u00a0\u201cjudicious combination of all the reasons and inducements\u201d\u00a0proper for selecting a leader. Instead of a deliberative process, the nation is being pushed toward a system where candidates will focus exclusively on high-population urban centers like New York City or Los Angeles, leaving rural and small-state voters entirely ignored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"12\">Hamilton was particularly concerned with the potential for national chaos during an election. He argued that by having electors meet in their respective states, their\u00a0\u201cdetached and divided situation\u201d\u00a0would protect the process from\u00a0\u201cheats and ferments\u201d\u00a0that might otherwise\u00a0\u201cconvulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"13\">A national popular vote does the exact opposite. It removes the firewall provided by state lines. In a popular vote system, a dispute in a single precinct could trigger a 50-state national recount, creating the very \u201ctumult\u201d Hamilton sought to avoid. The Electoral College, by contrast, provides \u201ceffectual security against this mischief\u201d by containing election disputes within individual states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"15\">Perhaps most frightening is how this move weakens the nation\u2019s defenses against foreign influence. Hamilton noted that the Electoral College was designed to oppose\u00a0\u201ccabal, intrigue, and corruption,\u201d\u00a0which he called the\u00a0\u201cmost deadly adversaries of republican government.\u201d\u00a0He believed that a national popular vote would make it easier for\u00a0\u201cforeign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils\u201d\u00a0by raising a\u00a0\u201ccreature of their own\u201d\u00a0to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">The Founders\u2019 system ensured that the Executive was \u201cindependent for his continuance in office on all but the people themselves.\u201d With Virginia becoming the latest blue state to join this compact, the \u201cmoral certainty\u201d Hamilton promised \u2014 that the office would fall only to those \u201cendowed with the requisite qualifications\u201d \u2014 is under direct threat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">If 48 more electoral votes are secured, the system that has guided the nation for over two centuries will be sacrificed at the altar of political expediency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/spanberger-pushes-nation-to-brink-signs-law-rendering-states-votes-null-and-void\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing the United States perilously close to dismantling its constitutional foundation, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed\u00a0HB965 into law, officially entering the Commonwealth into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). The decision has sparked immediate outrage across the state, as critics realize the measure effectively renders the individual votes of Virginians \u201cnull and void.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}