Someone brought this up in the thread about the next POTUS. I thought it merited discussion, especially after the curious reversals of 2000 and 2016.
The idea is to write the electoral college out of existence. The U.S. federal constitution is difficult to amend and it is unlikely that enough states would ratify an amendment abolishing it. So, some states have come up with this piece of garbage. I'll provide the same link that was shown to us in the aforementioned thread.
Granted, a growing number of Americans are discontented with the electoral college. Personally, I think it needs to be retained, at least for the time being. But 14 states disagree with me, apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_CompactIt's unconstitutional, for one thing. It says explicitly in Art. I, Sec. 10 that no state may, without the permission of Congress, enter into any compact with another state or states. For another thing, I very much doubt, as I stated in the other thread, that my own state's 10 democratic electors would ever in a million years vote for a republican, even if they had to according to this compact.
If we abolished the EC, what exactly could replace it? How could a direct, national, popular vote work?