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A September 2020 Gallup poll showed support for amending the U.S. Constitution to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote rose to 61% with 38% opposed, similar to levels prior to the 2016 election, although the partisan divide continued with support from 89% of Democrats and 68% of independents, but only 23% of Republicans. [93]
An alternative could be through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which started in the mid-2000s in an effort to override the Electoral College. The compact requires states that sign ...
Text of the National Popular Vote Compact Bill; Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote – read or download the book for free; FairVote Archived 2012-10-04 at the Library of Congress Web Archives; Common Cause; Electoral College legislation at the National Conference of State Legislatures
Senator Hubert Humphrey in 1956 proposed a compromise where electoral college votes would have been distributed based both on state pluralities and the national popular vote. Two electoral college votes would have been awarded to the candidate with the plurality of the popular vote in each state, and the remaining electoral votes would then ...
In the United States, a presidential candidate is elected not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which grants electoral votes to ...
The Electoral College recognizes and supports an important principle not supported by a national popular vote for the top officials of Article II. We are a unified country of 50 independent states.
National Popular Vote Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Los Altos, California, launched in 2006 by Barry Fadem and John Koza. [1] Its purpose is "to study, analyze and educate the public regarding its proposed interstate compact providing for the nationwide popular election of the President of the United States," [2] and it developed and champions the National Popular Vote Interstate ...
Under the Electoral College, all 50 states and the District of Columbia are allocated a certain number of electoral votes equal to their two senators and their number of representatives.