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Virginia signs national popular vote bill into law, joining interstate compact with 17 other states and District of Columbia
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.
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.
A red state refuses to publish their voter tally.
Every blue state in the compact chooses to ignore that state.
Since they can’t know the true popular vote count, every red state in the compact has cover to refuse to cast blue EC votes as required by the compact.
If you and your state overwhelmingly votes for candidate A, yet your state’s EC votes are cast for Trump’s third term, you (or people like you) are going to demand your state withdraw from the compact.
If the compact ever actually affects an election, it will be scrapped in a hot minute.