NTD host Paul Greaney will moderate a discussion panel on: “To Electoral or Not to Electoral: Should We Make Structural Changes to the Federal Election Process?” at the FreedomFest on July 14, 6:10 p.m. ET. EpochTV will livestream the event on this page.
Nowadays the vast majority of states use a state-wide general election to decide which presidential candidate should get all the states electoral college votes.
This means that someone can become president without winning the popular vote i.e without getting the most votes nationwide, e.g. Trump 2016 or Bush 2000.
At least one group says this is not a just way to choose a president. National Popular Vote is actively persuading states to choose their electors based on who wins the national popular vote not the state’s own general election. Fifteen states and Washington, D.C., have already signed on—that’s 70 percent of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force. So this is very real….