The National Popular Vote interstate compact would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The bill ensures that every vote, in every state, will matter in every presidential election.
The bill is a constitutionally conservative, state-based approach that preserves the Electoral College, state control of elections, and the power of the states to control how the President is elected.
How would NPVIC achieve this miracle? There would be a formal agreement among various states controlling 270 or more presidential electors who would be required to cast their ballots for any candidate receiving the most popular votes across the country - even if some other candidate wins a majority in any of the signatory states.
There 7 additional states in which at least one legislative chamber has thus far approved the measure and another in which both houses of the legislature have approved it.
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate - The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all certificates and the votes shall then be counted ... the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed.
The states could pursue reform by simply choosing to allocate their electoral votes proportionally.
https://spectator.org/the-national-popular-vote-con-job/
The bill ensures that every vote, in every state, will matter in every presidential election.
The bill is a constitutionally conservative, state-based approach that preserves the Electoral College, state control of elections, and the power of the states to control how the President is elected.
How would NPVIC achieve this miracle? There would be a formal agreement among various states controlling 270 or more presidential electors who would be required to cast their ballots for any candidate receiving the most popular votes across the country - even if some other candidate wins a majority in any of the signatory states.
There 7 additional states in which at least one legislative chamber has thus far approved the measure and another in which both houses of the legislature have approved it.
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate - The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all certificates and the votes shall then be counted ... the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed.
The states could pursue reform by simply choosing to allocate their electoral votes proportionally.
https://spectator.org/the-national-popular-vote-con-job/
1 comment:
There are good reasons why no state awards their electors proportionally.
Electors are people. They each have one vote. The result would be a very inexact whole number proportional system.
Every voter in every state would not be politically relevant or equal in presidential elections.
It would sharply increases the odds of no candidate getting the majority of electoral votes needed, leading to the selection of the president by the U.S. House of Representatives, regardless of the popular vote anywhere.
It would not accurately reflect the nationwide popular vote;
It would reduce the influence of any state, if not all states adopted.
It would not improve upon the current situation in which four out of five states and four out of five voters in the United States are ignored by presidential campaigns, but instead, would create a very small set of states in which only one electoral vote is in play (while making most states politically irrelevant),
It would not make every vote equal.
It would not guarantee the Presidency to the candidate with the most popular votes in the country.
The National Popular Vote bill is the way to make every person's vote equal and matter to their candidate because it guarantees the majority of Electoral College votes to the candidate who gets the most votes among all 50 states and DC.
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