Virginia signs National Popular Vote compact, bringing total to 222 electors
Campaign strategy teams must plan for a possible national-popular-vote outcome
Change
Virginia signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law, joining 17 other states and the District of Columbia and bringing compact electors to 222 of 538.
Why it matters
If states representing 270 electoral votes enact the compact, member states will be required to award their presidential electors to the national popular-vote winner. That requirement removes the guarantee that statewide victories decide the presidency in member states and forces campaigns and election administrators to adapt to national vote-counting and certification processes.
Implications
- — Campaign strategy teams at national presidential campaigns — must immediately incorporate national-popular-vote scenarios into targeting and resource-allocation models — failure to do so risks misallocating ad and field spending if compact membership grows to determine the outcome.
- — State election officials in National Popular Vote Interstate Compact member jurisdictions — must establish inter-state vote-aggregation, elector-certification and legal-ready procedures now — without those procedures, states risk failing to certify or to defend elector slates under the compact if it reaches 270 electors.
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The Guardian
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