Gorgeous photo! I wish our collective drama would ease. I’m having anxiety attacks. If we pull through this and win the house and senate we need to abolish the electoral college in favor of a popular vote for president.
Gorgeous photo! I wish our collective drama would ease. I’m having anxiety attacks. If we pull through this and win the house and senate we need to abolish the electoral college in favor of a popular vote for president.
The answer is out there already. Several states have already passed the bill that will give all of the electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. It kicks in when those states electoral votes surpass 270 electoral votes.
From Wikipedia - National Vote Interstate Compact
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Status as of April 2024:
0 270 538
Each square in the cartogram represents one electoral vote.
Enacted – 209 EVs (38.8% of Electoral College)
Pending – 50 EVs (9.3%)
Neither enacted nor pending – 279 EVs (51.9%)[1]
| Threshold for activation – 270 EVs (50% plus one)
Drafted January 2006
Effective Not in effect
Condition Adoption by states (and D.C.) whose electoral votes comprise a majority in the Electoral College. The agreement is binding only where adopted.
Signatories
List
Full text
Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote at Wikisource
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.[2][3]
Introduced in 2006, as of April 2024 it has been adopted by seventeen states and the District of Columbia. These jurisdictions have 209 electoral votes, which is 39% of the Electoral College and 77% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force.
Certain legal questions may affect implementation of the compact. Some legal observers believe states have plenary power to appoint electors as prescribed by the compact; others believe that the compact will require congressional consent under the Constitution's Compact Clause or that the presidential election process cannot be altered except by a constitutional amendment.
Gorgeous photo! I wish our collective drama would ease. I’m having anxiety attacks. If we pull through this and win the house and senate we need to abolish the electoral college in favor of a popular vote for president.
The answer is out there already. Several states have already passed the bill that will give all of the electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. It kicks in when those states electoral votes surpass 270 electoral votes.
From Wikipedia - National Vote Interstate Compact
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Status as of April 2024:
0 270 538
Each square in the cartogram represents one electoral vote.
Enacted – 209 EVs (38.8% of Electoral College)
Pending – 50 EVs (9.3%)
Neither enacted nor pending – 279 EVs (51.9%)[1]
| Threshold for activation – 270 EVs (50% plus one)
Drafted January 2006
Effective Not in effect
Condition Adoption by states (and D.C.) whose electoral votes comprise a majority in the Electoral College. The agreement is binding only where adopted.
Signatories
List
Full text
Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote at Wikisource
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.[2][3]
Introduced in 2006, as of April 2024 it has been adopted by seventeen states and the District of Columbia. These jurisdictions have 209 electoral votes, which is 39% of the Electoral College and 77% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force.
Certain legal questions may affect implementation of the compact. Some legal observers believe states have plenary power to appoint electors as prescribed by the compact; others believe that the compact will require congressional consent under the Constitution's Compact Clause or that the presidential election process cannot be altered except by a constitutional amendment.
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