Analyst's note:  Extremely troubling.  Our Founding Fathers very carefully crafted a U.S. Constitution where the President and Vice-President are chosen on separate ballots by the electors from each state.  In so doing, each state is entitled to the same number of electors as the sum total of its Representatives and Senators.

No one who is a Senator or Representative, or who occupies an office of trust or profits in the United States government, is eligible to serve as an elector.  Currently the people have the RIGHT to have all of the electors chosen from among the general populace - electors who can know and judge the candidate -- this in order to prevent a cabal or coalition of government officials to seek these positions in order to favor one of their own. 

Our Founding Fathers knew that the concentration of governmental power is the greatest threat to our individual freedom and states rights.  They insisted in nothing less than protection for the electorial system from conquest and occupation by elements within or associated with the federal government.  All this to avoid corruption and not be exposed to the evils of party intrigue. 

To avoid a cabal, from across the United States, the electors vote at the same time and in great distances from each other.  The president of the Senate has the right to count the ballots.  The Congress is given the right to observe the opening of the ballots and the counting of the votes for each candidate.

"Democrats have found yet another way to circumvent the U.S. Constitution: Bypass the Electoral College and elect a president by popular vote without first passing an amendment to the founding document, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

The Massachusetts Senate has joined five other states in passing a National Popular Vote bill to do just that. It approved the legislation July 15 by a margin of 28-10.

National Popular Vote website displays this map showing legislation's advance in various states.

The National Popular Vote, which already passed the Massachusetts House, is within one final "enactment vote" in the Massachusetts Senate before the measure can be ready for the governor's signature, the Boston Globe reported.

"Under the proposed law, all 12 of the state's electoral votes would be awarded to the candidate who receives the most votes nationally," according to the report.[....]"