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Originally Posted by QuikSand
Nominally true, and 165 EV worth of states have already passed this. Get NY and a few others interested, and the math gets pretty interesting quickly.
National Popular Vote
Now... what really happens if this passes and goes into effect is unknown. On paper, you'd have state laws that oblige electors to vote with the popular vote... but is that enforceable? Look at what we saw in micro level this year with a rogue elector from WA - and it turns out there was something like a $1,000 fine at stake if he betrayed his party when casting the actual vote.
Anyway... there's a theoretical avenue that's a ton simpler than amending the constitution. |
Probably at least as enforceable as current "faithless elector" laws are, really. The larger question to me is how electors would be selected under the NPV Compact.
Currently, the popular vote in each state actually elects the slate proposed by whatever Presidential candidate, and so the idea of faithless electors has been largely academic. Would that continue to hold true under the NPV? Trump (or a Republican) wins the popular vote, so California sends the Trump elector slate to the Electoral College? Or would it be a more generic slate legally bound to the winner of the popular vote?