National Popular Vote Interstate Compact | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/01/2019

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00:00:57 1 Mechanism
00:02:59 2 Motivation
00:07:18 3 Debate
00:08:28 3.1 Campaign focus
00:09:39 3.2 Close elections and election fraud
00:11:17 3.3 State power relative to population
00:12:39 3.4 Suggested partisan advantage
00:14:06 3.5 Negation of state-level majorities
00:15:09 3.6 Legality
00:17:22 3.6.1 Congressional approval
00:19:49 4 History
00:19:58 4.1 Proposals to abolish the Electoral College by amendment
00:20:42 4.1.1 Bayh–Celler Amendment
00:22:18 4.1.2 Every Vote Counts Amendment
00:23:30 4.2 Academic plan
00:25:28 4.3 Organization and advocacy
00:27:00 4.4 Adoption
00:30:03 4.4.1 Initiatives and referendums
00:30:52 4.5 Prospects
00:31:31 5 Bills
00:31:40 5.1 Bills in current session
00:32:08 5.2 Bills receiving floor votes in previous sessions
00:32:51 6 See also



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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their respective electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who wins the most popular votes is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome. As of  September 2018, it has been adopted by eleven states and the District of Columbia. Together, they have 172 electoral votes, which is 32.0% of the total Electoral College and 63.7% of the electoral votes needed to give the compact legal force.