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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/15
« Last post by enslaved1 on April 15, 2026, 04:20:28 PM »US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential elections
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A national majority vote for president is one step closer to reality after the Virginia governor, Abigail Spanberger, signed the national popular vote bill into law, joining an interstate compact with 17 other states and the District of Columbia.
Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, states would assign their presidential electors to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of the results within the state. The compact takes effect when states representing a majority of electoral votes – 270 of 538 – pass the legislation and thus would determine the winner of the presidential contest. With Virginia, the compact now has 222 electors.
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Every state that has so far enacted the compact has Democratic electoral majorities, including California, New York and Illinois. But legislation has been introduced in enough states to reach the 270-elector threshold, including swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
This one may be thread worthy. The article mentions two likely Constitutional arguments against this but it still seems to me that such an act would require an amendment, not just a bunch of states agreeing.
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