t is a proposed interstate compact that will never go into effect if no Red States become apart of it.It has been enacted into law in 16 jurisdictions with 196 electoral votes (CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA). The bill will go into effect when enacted by states with an additional 74 electoral votes.
It is in various phases of passage in many other states, including red ones.
All the Red States are gray, meaning “bill introduced, but no hearing.” That means the NPVIC was rejected out of hand in the Red States.
I can neither see it getting over the hump nor being upheld if it did.
There is of course no such thing as a national popular vote, they may be easy enough to add together but they are not added together and certified in any fashion by the federal government. Does the legislation call for using AP numbers?
A useful but very misleading chart. The table at the same page shows the details of actions by the states and it tells a different story. It’s telling that a Red State is yet to passed the NPV into law. A number of Blue States aren’t close to passing it. I don’t think that they have the votes to reach the 270 EV thresehold and the media efforts to convince us otherwise is weak.