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Walz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’
(thehill.com)
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Without a constitutional amendment, the electoral college is going nowhere.
The popular vote compact is a work around that doesn't require constitutional ammendment. It's an agreement to put their states delegates vote toward the winner of the national popular vote. (And only goes into effect once a majority of the electoral votes have signed on to it)
So far 209 of the needed 270 electoral votes have already signed on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
The national popular vote interstate compact is a pipe dream.
In the extremely unlikely event it is ever enacted, it will be dissolved as soon as a supporting state realizes it is likely to affect the outcome of the upcoming election.
If it ever actually affects an election, it will likely be deemed unconstitutional at the supreme court.
Even if it is not deemed unconstitutional, states bound to vote against their own voters will withdraw from it immediately.
At most, it will directly affect no more than one election, and probably not in the direction expected.
There's still the electoral college which needs to go, creating a half-assed workaround which could easily be dissolved is not a fix. It's nothing other than a spit and a handshake
It's more than a "handshake". States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there's nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes
Once it's been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though
It will never be in effect "for awhile". If they ever get to 270, it will last one election cycle at most. More likely, it will be dissolved between the time it comes into effect and the first general election afterward.