A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner.
With Virginia, the total number of states signed on to the interstate compact is now 18, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 222 electoral votes.
The compact doesn’t go into effect, though, until there are enough states signed up to reach the required 270 electoral votes to elect a president.
Many places are actively outlawing RCV ahead of time, because they know it would chip away at their duopoly. Mainly they’re doing it in Republican places because they know they can never win on a fair play field, but there are a surprising amount of Democrats against RCV.
Why is it surprising? RCV threatens their power just as much as the GOP’s.
It’s surprising because in the big tent Democrat party there’s a moderately sized group calling for RCV as well.
Yeah, the same moderately sized group that calls for single payer health care, living wages, etc, etc. The people who actually run the party keep them around to keep their left flank just hopeful enough not to defect to the Greens or PSL, and work hard to ensure they are never allowed any actual power to affect anything in the party that might make the donors sad.
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Because Democrats would also suffer if people could vote for aactually good candidates