Good riddance, Electoral College!
March 14th, 2006 at 04:47pm Geraldine
Today the New York Times endorsed a creative, yet not crazy plan to make the Electoral College a rubber stamp for the national popular vote using interstate compacts. It’s a politically viable solution that seems to be attracting a lot of attention lately:
Past attempts to abolish the Electoral College by amending the Constitution have run into difficulty. But National Popular Vote, which includes several former members of Congress, is offering an ingenious solution that would not require a constitutional amendment. It proposes that states commit to casting their electoral votes for the winner of the national popular vote. These promises would become binding only when states representing a majority of the Electoral College signed on. Then any candidate who won the popular vote would be sure to win the White House.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. Chase | March 14th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
You forgot to mention that you worked for National Popular Vote last summer. That’s, like, unethical!
2. Hannah | March 14th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Actually I worked for FairVote on the Instant Runoff Voting project, so it’s only mildly quasi-unethical.
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