[quote=givdrvr]Electoral College workaround already underway. Eliminating the Electoral College does not even require a constitutional amendment. An effort known as The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an agreement among numerous U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their respective electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in those states. Once states totaling 270 electoral votes join the compact–which only requires passing state laws– then the next presidential election will be determined the the popular vote, not the Electoral College.
As of November 9, 2016, ten states and the District of Columbia have signed the compact, totaling 165 electoral votes. So, we are already over 60% of the way there. Pending in PA and WI for another 36 EC votes if adopted by those states.[/quote]
problem is the states that are typically on the wrong end of the disenfranchisement already signed. The states that relish their out sized role in the limelight would sign this stuff over their dead bodies. and the states that are advantaged by the present system that gave them two presidents who lost the popular vote are ecstatic about the electoral college.
that is why I said what I said at the beginning. forcing change requires teeth. and the teeth is the threat of secession and breaking up the union until we get equal representation.
