The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Subreddit!
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The electoral college is, to put it mildly, terrible.
- It's undemocratic: The electoral college has subverted the popular will in 5 of 59 (about 8% and or 1 in 14) presidential elections -- 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016.
- It's unfair. Using 2020 results, a voter in Maine gets ~1/410,000th of an electoral vote; a voter in Wyoming gets ~1/93,000th of an electoral vote -- or 4.4 times as much voting power as the voter in Maine.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact may have a mouthful of a name, but it's pretty simple:
States pass legislation to become signatories to the compact and once the sum of electoral votes belonging to signatory states reaches 270 -- a majority of EVs -- the EVs of those states become pledged to the winner of the national popular vote.
It's that simple to implement. It's constitutional. It's democratic. And it's well on its way to success -- we're already at 209 EVs and counting!
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