| ▲ | Simulacra a day ago | |
For those getting excited: The Electoral College is established by the US Constitution, and abolishing it would require a constitutional amendment. | ||
| ▲ | bryanlarsen a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact does not abolish the Electoral College. | ||
| ▲ | jgwil2 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Maybe, maybe not. Presumably the courts would decide that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutionality_of_the_Natio... | ||
| ▲ | 28304283409234 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
FTA: “ even without a near-impossible constitutional amendment.” | ||
| ▲ | jauntywundrkind a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Yes, which is why National Popular Voting says that states send a rep to vote for whomever won the national popular vote. The states get to determine who they send by means of their choice, and if they want to send reps for the actually popular candidate, I think it would be mighty awful for the federal government to contravene that freedom of the states. Some kind of twisted sick ill justified explanation from the Bush Florida recount team aka 3/9 supreme court justices, to again contort the world & system to their pleasure, is all too expectable. Alas. "John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team." Not relevant then, but Gore had 0.5m more votes than Bush. https://bsky.app/profile/jfallows.bsky.social/post/3mwtbnzsa... | ||