Under National Popular Vote every vote in every presidential election in every state would be counted equally and for the candidate, unlike now. Under National Popular Vote, every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections, and included in the national count that determines the candidate with the most popular votes, who then is guaranteed the majority of electoral votes needed to win the presidency. It gives a voice to the minority party voters in each state. Now their votes are counted only for the candidate they did not vote for.
There is nothing in the Constitution that requires states to allow their citizens to vote for president, much less award all their electoral votes based upon the vote of their citizens.
In Bush v. Gore in 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote:
“The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the Electoral College. U.S. Const., Art. II, §1.
“This is the source for the statement in McPherson v. Blacker … that the State legislature’s power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary.
Far from denying or abridging “the right to vote in presidential elections for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States,” the National Popular Vote compact actually establishes the people’s right to vote for President in compacting states. Article II of the compact states.
“Each member state shall conduct a statewide popular election for President and Vice President of the United States.”
You are missing the Constitutional point. Once a state decides to select their electors by popular election, their vote MUST be equally weighed within the contex of that S T A T E election (there is NO Federal election for POTUS or any other Federal Office).
If 51% of a states' voters vote for the electors of candidate x, but the state then awards the electoral count to candidate y because candidate y won more votes in OTHER states...those 51% of voters would then be disenfranchised as their vote would not count equally in comparison to other voters in their own state. And their own state is the FULL, COMPLETE jurisdiction of the election. The only jurisdiction of said election.