Forum Overview :: Balance of Power :: 50 States Compact and other actionable change

[quote name="skip"] In an effort to reduce bitching online about shit that doesn't matter and/or is overrated (trans/guns/abortion/Trump/DNC) and do something more actionable, I'm sharing this and may list other stuff as I find them. For everyone's hand-wringing about the election, it will be decided by Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida. There's a law being approved by states to change how electoral votes are handed out. Basically, instead they would all go to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of who won which state. This doesn't matter so much for overall winner since popular and electoral vote rarely conflict, but it would mean that presidential candidates would actually have to campaign in states that have a huge chuck of the population that basically get ignored right now because they're solidly red or blue. It has 60% of the support it needs right now for critical mass and to make Congress go into hysterics: 1 Maryland 10 April 10, 2007 2 New Jersey 14 January 13, 2008 3 Illinois 20 April 7, 2008 4 Hawaii 4 May 1, 2008 5 Washington 12 April 28, 2009 6 Massachusetts 11 August 4, 2010 7 District of Columbia 3 December 7, 2010 8 Vermont 3 April 22, 2011 9 California 55 August 8, 2011 10 Rhode Island 4 July 12, 2013 11 New York 29 April 15, 2014 Total 165 (61.1% of the 270 EV needed) The official site where you can harass your legislators <a href="http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/">here</a> by putting in your zip code and sending an email to them and the Wiki article about the movement is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact">here.</a> It makes complete sense that solidly blue states would want this. I'm not sure why solidly red states haven't jumped on board since even more of them are ignored. <img src="http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/sites/default/files/explanation_graph.png">[/quote]