Sixteen states have signed the NVPIC, including the tiniest ones: Rhode Islnd, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey. This means they green to give their electoral votes to the winner of the National popular vote. Once the total electoral votes of signatories reaches 270, presidential,elections will be determined by the National popular vote total alone.
Of course there are legal questions and there will be challenges, like: can the electoral college provisions of the Constitution be eliminated without a Constitutional amendment? But the Constitutional provisions were meant to preserve the powers of states; manner of appointment of electors is up to them. I don’t think the Founders envisioned that the several states would ever WANT to deliberately emasculate themselves. They were more concerned with individual states acting TOO independent, trying to negotiate on their own with foreign governments, etc.
According to Wiki, MY state has a bill “pending” to join the compact! We have a GOP controlled legislature, but that doesn’t reassure me because they just passed an awful voting reform bill. I didn’t even know they were considering the NPVIC until I happened to check to see how far along this project had progressed.
Well, this is representative government: you vote for legislators hoping they will carry out your wishes. But WOULD a majority of Pennsylvanians want to give up their individual voting power? Why vote at all, if Trump could carry Pa as he did in 2016, but our electoral votes would still have gone to Clinton because she won California?
I reckon this would make us more of a democracy than the republic the founders intended. And “our democracy” is a shibboleth nowadays. The phrase is a patented trademark of the Dems. (Oh, except when the majority of the people doesn’t like something about their governance, in which case, it’s “populism”-boooo!)
But I just can’t figger out why individual states—any of them—would want to reduce their individual power.
Dear readers, do you know whether your state has signed the NPVIC? And if it did, did you know about it in advance?
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
They always have another trick up their sleeve, don’t they?
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Yes and unlike us they never give up. While we rest on our laurels,they are busy surreptitiously girdling the laurel tree.
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