'The way the Electoral College operates today is not carved in stone,' says author Jesse Wegman. 'The winner-take-all rule is really just a state invention. There's nothing keeping us from changing it to a different method.' (nprfreshair)
On how the idea of an"interstate compact" agreed upon by states works
All of these methods were contemplated at the founding. All of them have actually been used throughout American history. And what the compact does is it uses that power. But in a different way, which is to say, rather than states giving their presidential electors to the candidate who wins the most votes in that state, they instead agree by compact — which is basically a contract among states — to award all of their electors to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in the entire country.
It's a bipartisan group of people. It's Republicans, some Trump-supporting Republicans as well as some very liberal Democrats. They've been working together for more than a decade on this. And they've actually won over a lot of Republican lawmakers in a lot of states. In fact, the compact has passed Republican-led chambers in four different states.
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