Seems like this is more widespread than I had thought: Here’s how to do it: states can decide how they award their electoral vote, so if enough require their electors to vote for the winner of the nationwide popular vote (instead of who won in that state,) it would fix the problems of the Electoral College without needing to amend the Constitution.
http://www.commoncause.org/take-action/act/fix-the-broken-electoral-college-national-popular-vote.html They go on to say it's not as far off as you might think: This National Popular Vote compact wouldn’t take effect until enough states joined in, but we’re closer to that than you might think -- ten states (California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington) and the District of Columbia have already signed on, totaling 165 electoral votes of the needed 270. On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend visiting from Seattle mentioned a meme floating around there > could give popular vote over electoral college w/o constitutional amendment. > > It would take enough states whose electoral vote sum would be greater than > 270. They would then have their electors vote the popular vote. > > As nutty as it seems, it would work and likely be much easier than a > constitutional amendment. > > -- Owen >
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