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Russia Today reports:
Lawmakers in several US states are considering proposals to change to how Electoral College votes are allocated, after Republican Donald Trump
Proponents of the National Popular Vote (NPV) reportedly dominated the public hearing on Wednesday in Hartford, Connecticut, dedicated to proposals that would have the New England state join the interstate compact to allocate their Electoral College votes to whichever candidate won the most votes nationally.
There's more:
After Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush in 2000 – due to a controversial US Supreme Court decision to halt the recount of disputed votes in Florida – several university professors proposed an interstate compact that would allocate electors to the national popular vote winner.
Maryland was the first state to enter the compact in 2007, and the most recent state to sign on was New York in 2014. As of January 2017, the compact includes California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia. They account for 165 electoral votes of the 270 needed for the arrangement to come into effect.
All eleven members are solid “blue” or Democrat majority states. No “red” states have joined the compact yet, though a few Republican lawmakers have indicated support for the reform over the past decade.
The Blue state blues.
