The quest to reform the Electoral College and acheive a national popular vote for the President of the United States has taken another step forward, this time in New York.
With little fanfare, five Republican assemblymen in May proposed a bill that would direct New York's electoral votes in presidential elections to the candidate who wins the plurality of the national vote. The compact would take effect only if the number of states entered into identical agreements represented a majority of the electoral votes. Once the threshold of 270 was met, which could be done with pledges from as few as 11 of the most populous states (or as many as 39 sparsely populated states), the candidate who won the most votes in the nation would be elected president.
Calfornia and Colorado have already passed the bill, and the legislation has been introduced (and in some places, in committee) in a handful of other states. It's a slow process, but one by one states are giving the issue careful consideration.
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