National popular vote
The National Popular Vote (NPV) refers to the concept of allocating a state's presidential electors to the candidate who wins the national popular vote regardless of the state results in a presidential election. For example, if a state used NPV and voted for candidate A, but candidate B won the nationwide popular vote, the state would allocate its presidential electors to candidate B. Under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, states have control over how they allocate their presidential electors.[1]
NPV has been adopted in 15 jurisdictions: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia. These jurisdictions possessed a total of 165 electoral votes as of 2016. In these jurisdictions, the system was adopted as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. However, the compact cannot take effect until enough states have joined that the system would possess the required 270 of 538 electoral votes to elect a president.[1][2]
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