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How is this different from popular vote?

• elcritch 2y ago
  It would be implementing a popular vote nationwide by circumventing the electoral college. It’s just a mechanism to get around modifying the constitution.
• readthenotes1 2y ago
  The current compact only kicks in is the electoral college vote and the popular vote differ. That is quite a bit different than the popular vote as you can see this year when Trump would have basically run the board of electoral college votes without that caveat.
  • InitialLastName 2y ago
    Either way, the person who wins the popular vote wins the election; what difference does it make how many electoral college votes they get (if the electoral votes are determined by a rule like that).
    • starik36 2y ago
      Exactly, they called it something else in order to obfuscate the issue. Call it what it is.
• superfrank 2y ago
  It's not and that's the point. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a way to choose the president by popular vote without the overhead of removing the electoral college. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
  • starik36 2y ago
    So then it should be called "Popular Vote" and not "Interstate Compact". It just obfuscates the issue.
    • superfrank 2y ago
      It's called the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact". The Interstate Compact part just means that it's a legally binding agreement between states.