Originally Posted by logtroll
Originally Posted by perotista
Each state legislature can change the way they award their electoral votes. That is if they wanted to. None want to.
Many want to... Popular Vote Interstate Compact
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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome. As of January 2020, it has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia. Together, they have 196 electoral votes, which is 36.4% of the Electoral College and 72.6% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force.

That's not changing the process. It's a way for some states to bypass the electoral college to go to a direct nationwide popular vote.

What you have is basically solid Democratic states vowing to vote for the democratic candidate. Now I wonder how the people of a state would feel to see their state vote one way, only to have their popular vote overturned by the compact? I imagine there would be lawsuits. A test of the constitutionality of the compact.

What I fully expect to see happen if any of those states now a member of the compact see that a Republican would win the popular vote nationwide, they would withdraw from it immediately. Or if Republicans were to take over the state legislatures and governor's office, then they would repeal the compact.

But none want to change their winner take all way of awarding their electoral votes. Pennsylvania debated this a few years back. About going to the CD method Maine and Nebraska use. But in the end, Pennsylvania decided going to the CD method would weaken their political power in deciding who would become president.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.