“Therefore they can tell the electors to vote for the National Popular Vote winner.”
It’s unconstitutional.
As it has worked for the past 200+ years, a candidate in a given state wins the popular vote in that state and thus wins those electors as a winner takes all.
This compact will undo that. So candidate
“A” wins a given state by a landslide now faces losing that states electors (and possibly the overall election) because candidate “B” so-called “won” the national popular vote.
How many of those national popular votes are duplicates? How many are from illegals? How many are from other forms of voter fraud?
Take out the illegals and the dead people who were registered to vote from just LA County alone and President Trump would have “won” the popular vote too.
Second sentence of Kagan’s syllabus:
“ The States have devised mechanisms to ensure that the electors they appoint vote for the presidential candidate their citizens have preferred.”
The candidate the state’s citizens prefer! Not some other state’s citizens. Kagan did not have to phrase it that way. She could have just noted the supremacy of that state’s laws regardless.
The NPVC will be found unConstitutional.