Virginia signs national popular vote bill into law, joining interstate compact with 17 other states and District of Columbia

Virginia signs national popular vote bill into law, joining interstate compact with 17 other states and District of Columbia

A national majority vote for president is one step closer to reality after the Virginia governor, Abigail Spanberger, signed the national popular vote bill into law, joining an interstate compact with 17 other states and the District of Columbia.

Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, states would assign their presidential electors to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of the results within the state. The compact takes effect when states representing a majority of electoral votes – 270 of 538 – pass the legislation and thus would determine the winner of the presidential contest. With Virginia, the compact now has 222 electors.

Every state that has so far enacted the compact has Democratic electoral majorities, including California, New York and Illinois. But legislation has been introduced in enough states to reach the 270-elector threshold, including swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    419·
    21 hours ago

    As interesting as this sounds - I honestly can’t see it working.

    Can you imagine how Californians would react if the state gave its votes to Trump after he won the popular vote?

    • Soulphite@reddthat.com
      11·
      20 hours ago

      It’s just a good thing trump can’t run again and he’s besmudged MAGA movemenr for the most part. They’re very unpopular at the moment.

      • obvs@lemmy.world
        71·
        19 hours ago

        Amendment 15 VERY CLEARLY says he can’t be President. VERY clearly. And the Supreme Court literally created a bullshit ruling pretending it doesn’t.

        It’s not even up for debate. That’s what it LITERALLY says:

        https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/

        No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

        So…

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
          61·
          19 hours ago

          We’ll, to many people it was very clear he couldn’t run the second time, given the insurrection attempt. But here we are.

        • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
          41·
          19 hours ago

          There’s nothing stopping him from running as Vance’s VP, technically. We all know he’d still try to act like he’s president

          • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            6·
            16 hours ago

            You have to be eligible to be elected in order to be VP. So back in sane times, he would not be able to be VP either.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        20 hours ago

        I was speaking in past-tense. But also literally any other maga asshole. California liberals would implode over the idea of giving their votes to Vance.