More importantly, states participating in NPV cannot tell NPV states what to do, either. This idiocy is an unenforceable agreement.
Election Day is in early November. The Electoral College vote is held in mid-December. That gives any NPV state 5-6 weeks to have its state legislature change its mind and drop out of the NPV. And that is exactly what will happen in any state where a Republican presidential candidate wins the national popular vote but loses an NPV state.
What is this “national popular vote” of which you speak?
Who tallies it? Who certifies it? How is it to be recounted?
‘And that is exactly what will happen in any state where a Republican presidential candidate wins the national popular vote but loses an NPV state.’
there are two chances for a Pub winning the popular vote going forward; none, and less than none...last happened, 2004, with an exceptionally weak and little known Dem running against an incumbent, and that margin was 3 million votes from a total of 121 million, .024 percent of the vote total...