Not true. The law doesn't go into effect until states with a majority of electoral votes have signed up. This won't happen, so it's a cheap way for morons to protest the 2000 election results.
They are apparently so stupid they don't realize the pact could just as easily result in a Republican winning as a Democrat. They just assume the Democrat will automatically win the popular vote.
What I want to know is how a state unilaterally nullify the Constitution without going through the process of amendment?
This is totally dumb, reducing each state’s impact in the general election. For a state to institute this, it would have to be run by power-phobic, effete liberals. (Wait...)
As I recall, this is also unconstitutional - states can’t unilaterally enter in compacts without Congressional action.
I don’t think a majority is even enough. I believe the Constitution will have to be changed and IIRC, it’s a 2/3 vote.
Article I, Section 10, Paragraph 3: (emphasis added)
[3] No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops and ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Not a chance in the world. If that happened, they would simply void the pact and vote for the Dem anyway. The NPVIC is on very shaky Constitutional ground to begin with. If it was on the verge of doing something so hideously, glaringly wrong as electing a <gasp>Republican, then an army of Constitutional law professors would march on the Supreme Court and have it struck down.
They are incredibly stupid. This could only help the Republicans. Those states would be blue under the current system so by changing, it opens the best possibility for turning a blue state red. Talk about disenfranchisement of your citizens!