Popular Vote winners will become President-Elect, by the law of the land, when just 105 more electoral college votes join the 165 already signed into State Law.
This is a State’s Rights issue: There are no federal steps, amendments, nor congressional interaction *required*, in order to change the electoral process, across the entire United States.
The 2016 General Election was only the 5th time in US history when the popular vote winner was not the Electoral College winner. There is little to gain by hand-wringing about the pros and cons of each state adopting the National Popular Vote standard into law . . . other than distractions, distortions, dissembling, and disseminating Baked News (the confounding kind, having a scintilla of data baked into a manufactured conclusion).
It is time for State's Legislatures to join the The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) by passing NPVIC Legislation !
States which have already passed NPVIC legislation (Congratulations!) :
Current
Electoral Date
Jurisdiction votes Adopted
Maryland 10 2007
New Jersey 14 2008
Illinois 20 2008
Hawaii 4 2008
Washington 12 2009
Massachusetts 11 2010
District of Columbia 3 2010
Vermont 3 2011
California 55 2011
Rhode Island 4 2013
New York 29 2014
Total 165 (minimum of 270 are needed)
The other four elections mentioned are:
1824 Democratic-Republican Andrew Jackson won the popular vote
(Pres-Elect: Democratic-Republican John Quincy Adams)
1876 Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote
(Pres-Elect: Republican Rutherford B Hayes)
1888 Democrat Grover Cleveland won the popular vote
(Pres-Elect: Republican Benjamin Harrison)
2000 Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote
(Pres-Elect: Republican George W Bush)
Electing the president by national popular vote is a tangible, historically-consistent, measurable, reachable goal, State-By-State.
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