You see, the whole Electoral College system has gotten on people’s nerves over the years [citation needed/s], and some states have opted to allocate their Electoral votes to whoever wins the popular national vote, no matter what. The map of states that have signed that compact looks something like this:
All the green states are the ones have adopted the compact, and all the yellow states currently have the compact under review.
Furthermore, all the yellow states are states that Trump won. Turning those electoral votes over to Hillary, the winner of the popular vote, would give her the presidency.
Now the Electoral College apparently doesn’t actually cast their votes until December 19th, which means that if the compact is passed before then in those four states–Missouri, Arizona, Michigan, and (most importantly, as it has the largest number of Electoral votes) Pennsylvania–then those states’ Electoral votes will go over to Hillary and she will win the presidency.
Of course, that leaves just over a month to get four state governments to pass an agreement into law. In any normal situation, that would be nigh-impossible. But the nation is essentially in crisis mode right now, and with enough attention maybe this can get fast-tracked through. Or even if it doesn’t, drawing attention to the mere fact that this compact exists may help motivate Electorates to vote against their state and towards the overall will of the country.
Either way, share this information. There’s still time.
(I am not 100% sure this information is correct – I’m not even American I’ve just read the documentation – but my reading of it is this wouldn’t work for this election cycle, It’s an interesting possibility for the future however of course)
1) I can’t find any information about it being under review in Arizona or Missouri (It passed in the lower house in Arizona but not in the upper – potentially the information about where its under review is old). It is under review in Pennsylvania and Michigan (I’ve no idea how likely it is to pass) but this is not enough to get Clinton to 270 (I think it would bring Trump down to exactly 270 college votes?)
2) This doesn’t matter anyway because the compact doesn’t go into effect in any state that has signed it into law until the total number of electoral college votes covered by the states signed up to it is >270. (Which it doesn’t get to even if all four of those states did sign it into law – though I think they are way closer to that than they were a couple of years back and such – but basically in order to achieve this they need some red or purple states to pass it not just safe democrat ones…)
3) I also have no idea if this could even be retrospective – it’s about appointing the electors so that may have already happened this cycle?
fearlessstateofmind backup 