A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner.

With Virginia, the total number of states signed on to the interstate compact is now 18, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 222 electoral votes.

The compact doesn’t go into effect, though, until there are enough states signed up to reach the required 270 electoral votes to elect a president.

  • Hawke@lemmy.world
    13·
    11 hours ago

    the problem isn’t the electoral college itself. It’s that the United States is not a country, It’s a federal system.

    That’s not a problem, it’s a good thing.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Not if your particular opinion Is that the United States federal government should be a direct democracy, In my experience, most of the people championing the end of the electoral college have that opinion.

      Personally, I kind of feel like we need a bigger reforms than that, but that’s just me.

      • Hawke@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        My opinion is that the federal government should be mostly irrelevant. About as significant as the EU government, thereabouts.