“A group called National Popular Vote has a proposed National Popular Vote bill that would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. And it does not require a Constitutional Amendment.”
Article II Section 1 Paragraph 2 and 3 superseded by Amendment 12 of the US Constitution cannot be overridden by a lessor bill as it does not rise to the level of a Constitutional Amendment.
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Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
When I saw that this was a Hoffington Post story, I didn’t bother to read it past the first sentence.
So much bull squeeze.
The contention that no Constitutional Amendment is necessary is laughable.
Technically, if the electoral college mirrored the popular vote, then since neither one got over 50%, both would fall short of 270 and the next president would be chosen by the house.
Only ONCE did a candidate who won a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote (putting aside the fact that it’s a fictional and irrelevant construct)lose in the electoral college, which was Tilden, who got 50.9% in 1876, but lost to Hayes in the EC.