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The federal Voting Rights lawsuit needs to be to disqualify all of these states’ electoral votes from being counted in the total.

I think this National Popular Vote initiative is a very bad idea for all the reasons listed. I also think it will be ignored by the 'blue' states the minute a Republican gets a majority of the national popular vote.

However, it does not take a Constitutional amendment to do this. The Constitution establishes that the states get to decide how to apportion their electors, and if they choose to do so on the basis of how other states voted rather than on how their own citizens voted, then they have that authority.

Declaring it to be unConstitutional dilutes the strong arguments on how it will swing all the power in electing Presidents to the big, populous states and smaller states will lose all voice (and candidate interest). I have seen too many threads that get wrapped up in the Constitutionality argument instead of the real issue.

However, it's also a non issue. The deep blue states will go for it, but their electoral votes were always going for the collectivist candidate anyway. The 'swing' states have not been lining up for this, and if the collectivists had control of the additional 75 electoral votes needed to get this measure approved, they wouldn't need it in the first place.