There is no honest way to pretend that changes in the Electoral College should not require a constitutional amendment. Any attempts to do it otherwise will be some form of power grab.
This is how it's described by the organization that is putting this farce together..
Under the U.S. Constitution, the states have exclusive and plenary (complete) power to allocate their electoral votes, and may change their state laws concerning the awarding of their electoral votes at any time. Under the National Popular Vote bill, all of the state's electoral votes would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes—that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538).
I don't know how this could be described as anything other than subversion. The states (in this instance, the leftist elements of the state legislatures) are getting together to create extra-constitutional agreements to specifically undermine a constitutional provision.
There is no honest way to pretend that changes in the Electoral College should not require a constitutional amendment. Any attempts to do it otherwise will be some form of power grab.
The Electoral College would still work the same way as far as their votes for the President and the Electoral College votes being turned in at a certain time and certified by Congress. That wouldn't change. That's the part that would require some kind of Contsitutional Amendment in order to change it. It's not being changed.
BUT, the part that would change, which would make the Electoral College useless, and simply "going through the motions" and nothing more than that -- is when the individual states divide their Electoral College votes up between the candidates and give each candidate a "share" of the vote instead of just one candidate taking the entire state.
NOW... that part -- does not take a Constitutional Amendment -- so they're doing an "end-run" around the guts of the issue by doing what doesn't require an Amendment and makes it "useless" ...
We have no Constitution. Anything that’s unenforced is, for all practical purposes, non-existent.
Obama is an ineligible president who is ruling by executive order in order to bypass all the due process, separation of powers, checks and balances, and rule of law that we Americans know and love. The coup has already happened.
This is not a change to the EC. It is a change to the way the participating sates choose their electors.