The dumbest institution in the democratic world might not have long to live.
Earlier this week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills decided not to veto an obscure law called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact , which calls for the state's 4 Electoral College votes to be awarded to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationally regardless of the outcome in the state. The law doesn't go into effect, however, until states totaling 270 electoral votes join the compact. That's the number of Electoral College votes required to win the presidency.
But Democrats have been quite successful in passing the NPV when they win governing trifectas, and with all consensus blue states in the fold, the action now moves to battleground states like Arizona and Georgia. If Michigan, which currently has a Democratic state legislature and governor, puts it into effect as expected, that would leave the effort at 224 Electoral Votes.
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