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.
This is even bigger news. Looking at the Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
There are 45 Pending. South Carolina, PA, Kansas and Arizona all have bills in committee as of about the last 12-16 months.
This could actually happen. That’d bring it to 267. So they’d only need 4 to put it over.
EDIT: Fixed 167 to 267.
267*
Fixed! :) TY!