National Popular Vote Watch

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

A map of the initiative's status in each state:

Note that Maine and Louisiana's Houses both defeated the bill, and Montana's has formed a committee to study it. Still a lot of work to do...

(90% is enacted, 60/70/80 are passed by one or both houses, 40/50 have been referred to a committee, 30 have been introduced)

[Mr. Morden]

Seems like the only way for this to pass now is if Trump becomes so unpopular that Republican state legislators regret his election in the first place, so they work to ditch the current EC system in order to prevent a 2016 redux at some point in the future.

[Del Tachi]

Seems like the only way for this to pass now is if Trump becomes so unpopular that Republican state legislators regret his election in the first place, so they work to ditch the current EC system in order to prevent a 2016 redux at some point in the future.

Except switching to a popular vote system would do nothing to stop Trump reduxes.  Its not like those things are correlated.

[reagan84]

If we go to a national popular vote in an election decided by 0.2%, it would trigger an automatic national recount with massive potential for fraud and legal wrangling.  Think FLA 2000 was bad?  This would be 50 times worse. 

Word on the street is that some rural precincts are still out so I'm not sure that Clinton did in fact win the PV.  What about non-citizens voting?  No dispute that it happens but how prevalent is it?