Walz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’
Walz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’
As governor he got his state signed on to the national popular vote interstate compact
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He'll never mention it again after the election.
He got his state on the national popular vote interstate compact as govenor. He's talked about it before and done more than most to make the popular vote a reality
Without a constitutional amendment, the electoral college is going nowhere.
The popular vote compact is a work around that doesn't require constitutional ammendment. It's an agreement to put their states delegates vote toward the winner of the national popular vote. (And only goes into effect once a majority of the electoral votes have signed on to it)
So far 209 of the needed 270 electoral votes have already signed on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
There's still the electoral college which needs to go, creating a half-assed workaround which could easily be dissolved is not a fix. It's nothing other than a spit and a handshake
It's more than a "handshake". States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there's nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes
Once it's been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though