National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

  • Status as of May 2016:
  •   Enacted into law (165 electoral votes; 30.7% of EC)
  •   Pending in current legislative session (104 EVs; 19.3%)
  •   Not enacted and no bill pending (269 EVs; 50%)[1]

Each square in the lower cartogram
represents one electoral vote.

Drafted February 2006
Effective Not in effect
Condition Adoption by several of the states and including the District of Columbia whose collective electoral vote total represents an absolute majority of votes (at least 270) in the Electoral College. Note: The agreement would be in effect only among the assenting constituent political entities.
Signatories
Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote at Wikisource

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among several U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their respective electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationwide. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who wins the most popular votes nationwide is elected president.[2][3] (Currently, a candidate could lose the popular vote nationally but still win the presidency with Electoral College votes.)[4] The compact has not yet come into effect. As of 2016, it had been joined by ten states and the District of Columbia; their 165 combined electoral votes amount to 30.7% of the total Electoral College vote, and 61.1% of the 270 votes needed for it to have legal force.

Mechanism

Proposed in the form of an interstate compact, the agreement would go into effect among the participating states in the compact only after they collectively represent an absolute majority of votes (currently at least 270) in the Electoral College. In the next presidential election after adoption by the requisite number of states, the participating states would award all of their electoral votes to presidential electors associated with the candidate who wins the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As a result, the national popular vote would always win the presidency by always winning a majority of votes in the Electoral College. Until the compact's conditions are met, all states award electoral votes in their current manner.

The compact would modify the way participating states implement Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which requires each state legislature to define a method to appoint its electors to vote in the Electoral College. The Constitution does not mandate any particular legislative scheme for selecting electors, and instead vests state legislatures with the exclusive power to choose how to allocate its own electors.[3][5] States have chosen various methods of allocation over the years, with regular changes in the nation's early decades. Today, all but two states (Maine and Nebraska) award all their electoral votes to the candidate with the most votes statewide.

Motivation behind the compact

Source: The Washington Post, 2007 poll.

Public opinion surveys suggest that a majority of Americans support the idea of a popular vote for President. A 2007 poll found that 72% favored replacing the Electoral College with a direct election, including 78% of Democrats, 60% of Republicans, and 73% of independent voters.[6] Polls dating back to 1944 have shown a consistent majority of the public supporting a direct vote.[7] Reasons behind the compact include:

Debate

The project has been supported by editorials in many newspapers, including the New York Times,[9] the Chicago Sun-Times, the Los Angeles Times,[14] the Boston Globe,[15] and the Minneapolis Star Tribune,[16] arguing that the existing system discourages voter turnout and leaves emphasis on only a few states and a few issues, while a popular election would equalize voting power. Others have argued against it, including the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.[17] An article by Pierre S. du Pont, IV, a former governor of Delaware, in the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal[18] has called the project an urban power grab that would shift politics entirely to urban issues in high population states and allow lower caliber candidates to run. A collection of readings pro and con has been assembled by the League of Women Voters.[19]

Some of the major points of debate are detailed below:

Campaign focus

Advertising spending and campaign visits by both major-party candidates during the final stretch of the 2004 presidential campaign (Sept. 26 – Nov. 2, 2004)[20]

Spending on advertising per capita:

  •   < $0.50
  •   $0.50–$1.00
  •   $1.00–$2.00
  •   $2.00–$4.00
  •   > $4.00

Campaign visits per 1 million residents:

  •   No visits
  •   0–1.0
  •   1.0–3.0
  •   3.0–9.0
  •   > 9.0

Under the current system, campaign focus – in terms of spending, visits, and attention paid to regional or state issues – is largely limited to the few swing states whose electoral outcomes are competitive, with politically "solid" states mostly ignored by the campaigns. The maps to the right illustrate the amount spent on advertising and the number of visits to each state, relative to population, by the two major-party candidates in the last stretch of the 2004 presidential campaign. Supporters of the compact contend that a national popular vote would encourage candidates to campaign with equal effort for votes in competitive and non-competitive states alike.[21] Critics of the compact argue that candidates would have less incentive to focus on states with smaller populations or fewer urban areas, and would thus be unmotivated to address rural issues.[18][22]

Close elections and election fraud

Opponents of the compact have raised concerns about election fraud. In his article, Pete du Pont argues that in 2000, "Mr. Gore's 540,000-vote margin amounted to 3.1 votes in each of the country's 175,000 precincts. 'Finding' three votes per precinct in urban areas is not a difficult thing...". However, National Popular Vote has argued that a direct election would in fact reduce the likelihood of a close election and decrease the feasibility of fraud. They contend that the large pool of 122 million votes spread across the country would make a close or fraudulent outcome much less likely than under the current system, in which the national winner may be determined by an extremely small vote margin in any one of the fifty-one statewide tallies.[18][22]

The NPVIC does not include any provision for a nationwide recount in the event that the vote tally is in dispute. While each state has established rules governing recounts in the event of a close or disputed statewide tally,[23] it is possible for the national vote to be close without there being a close result in any one state. Proponents of the compact argue that the need for a recount would be less likely under a national popular vote than under the current electoral system.[24]

Populous states versus low-population states

State population per electoral vote in the 2012 presidential election

There is some debate over whether the Electoral College favors small- or large-population states. Those who argue that the College favors low-population states point out that such states have proportionally more electoral votes relative to their populations, because each state's number of electors is greater by two than its (proportionally allocated) number of Congressional representatives.[17][25] In the most populous state, California, this results in an electoral clout 16% smaller than a purely proportional allocation would produce, whereas the least-populous states, with three electors, hold a voting power 143% greater than they would under purely proportional allocation. The proposed compact would give equal weight to each voter's ballot, regardless of what state they live in. Others, however, believe that since most states award electoral votes on a winner-takes-all system, the potential of populous states to shift greater numbers of electoral votes gives them more actual clout.[26][27][28]

Possible partisan advantage

Some supporters and opponents of the NPVIC have based their position at least in part on a perceived partisan advantage of the compact. Governor Du Pont, a Republican, has argued that the compact would be an "urban power grab" and benefit Democrats.[18] However, Saul Anuzis of the Republican National Committee wrote that Republicans "need" the compact, citing what he believes to be the center-right nature of the American electorate.[29] New Yorker essayist Hendrik Hertzberg maintains that the compact would benefit neither party, noting that historically both Republicans and Democrats have been successful in winning the popular vote in presidential elections.[30] In the last four elections, Democrats enjoyed an advantage from the electoral vote system in three elections (2012, 2008, and 2004), whereas in 2000 the electoral system provided the Republicans with an advantage.[31][32]

Relevance of state-level majorities

Two governors who have vetoed NPVIC legislation, Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Linda Lingle of Hawaii, both in 2007, objected to the compact on the grounds that it could require their states' electoral votes to be awarded to a candidate who did not win a majority in their state. (Both states have since enacted laws joining the compact.) Supporters of the compact counter that under a national popular vote system, state-level majorities are irrelevant; in any state, votes cast contribute to the nationwide tally, which determines the winner. The preferences of individual voters are thus paramount, while state-level majorities are an obsolete intermediary measure.[33][34][35]

Legality

Supporters believe the compact is legal under Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the plenary power of the states to appoint their electors in any manner they see fit: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress…" Proponents of this position include law professors Jamie Raskin, who co-sponsored the first NPVIC bill to be signed into law, and Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram Amar, who were the compact's original proponents.[36]

A 2008 assessment by law school student David Gringer suggested that the NPVIC could potentially violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but the U.S. Department of Justice in 2012 precleared California's entry into the compact under Section 5 of the Act, concluding that the compact had no adverse impact on California's racial minority voters.[37][38] The DOJ's decision is consistent with the argument of FairVote's Rob Richie that the NPVIC "treats all voters equally."[39]

Gringer also assailed the NPVIC as "an end-run around the constitutional amendment process." Raskin has responded: "the term 'end run' has no known constitutional or legal meaning. More to the point, to the extent that we follow its meaning in real usage, the 'end run' is a perfectly lawful play."[40] Raskin argues that the adoption of the term "end run" by the compact's opponents is a tacit acknowledgment of the plan's legality.

Ian Drake, an assistant professor of Political Science and another critic of the compact, has argued that the constitution both requires and prohibits Congressional approval of the compact. In Drake's view, only a constitutional amendment could make the compact valid.[41] Authors Michael Brody,[42] Jennifer Hendricks,[43] and Bradley Turflinger[44] have examined the compact and concluded that the NPVIC, if successfully enacted, would pass constitutional muster.

It is possible that Congress would have to approve the NPVIC before it could go into effect. Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution states that: "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power." However, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Virginia v. Tennessee, 148 U.S. 503 (1893), and in several more recent cases, that such consent is not necessary except where a compact encroaches on federal supremacy.[45] Every Vote Equal argues that the compact could never encroach upon federal power since the Constitution explicitly gives the power of casting electoral votes to the states, not the federal government. Derek Muller argues that the NPVIC would nonetheless affect the federal system in such a way that it would require Congressional approval,[46] while Ian Drake argues that Congress is actually prohibited under the Constitution from granting approval to the NPVIC.[41] NPVIC supporters dispute this conclusion and state they plan to seek congressional approval if the compact is approved by a sufficient number of states.[47]

History

Proposals to abolish the Electoral college by amendment

Several proposals to abolish the Electoral College by constitutional amendment have been introduced in Congress over the decades. These efforts have, however, been hampered by the fact that a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate are required to send an amendment to the states, where ratification by three-fourths of the State legislatures is required for it to become operative.

Bayh–Celler Amendment

The amendment which came closest to success was the Bayh–Celler proposal during the 91st Congress. Introduced by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York as House Joint Resolution 681, it would have replaced the Electoral College with a simpler plurality system based on the national popular vote. Under this system, the pair of candidates who had received the highest number of votes would win the presidency and vice presidency respectively, providing they won at least 40% of the national popular vote. If no pair received 40% of the popular vote, a runoff election would be held, in which the choice of president and vice president would be made from the two pairs of persons who had received the highest numbers of votes in the first election. The word "pair" was defined as "two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President."[48] Celler's proposed constitutional amendment passed in the House of Representatives by a 338–70 vote in 1969, but was filibustered in the Senate, where it died.

Every Vote Counts Amendment

A joint resolution to amend the Constitution, providing for the popular election of the president and vice president under a new electoral system was introduced in 2005 by Representative Gene Green of Texas. In 2009, at the start of the 111th Congress, Green introduced H.J.Res. 9, commonly known as the Every Vote Counts Amendment. Two other joint resolutions were proposed in the 111th Congress to amend the Constitution to establish a national popular vote for the president and vice-president. Sponsored by Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Illinois, H.J.Res. 36 would require a majority vote for president. Sponsored by Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, S.J.Res. 4 would leave the method of election to an Act of Congress. Each of these measures died in committee.

Academic plan

In 2001, Northwestern University law professor Robert Bennett suggested a plan in an academic publication to implement a National Popular Vote through a mechanism that would embrace state legislatures' power to appoint electors, rather than resist that power.[49] By coordinating, states constituting a majority of the Electoral College could effectively implement a popular vote.

Law professors (and brothers) Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram Amar defended the constitutionality of such a plan.[50] They proposed that a group of states, through legislation, form a compact wherein they agree to give all of their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner, regardless of the balance of votes in their own state. These state laws would only be triggered once the compact included enough states to control a majority of the electoral college (270 votes), thus guaranteeing that the national popular vote winner would also win the electoral college.

The academic plan uses two constitutional features:

The Amar brothers noted that such a plan could be enacted by the passage of laws in as few as eleven states and would probably not require Congressional approval, though this is not certain (see Debate above).

Organization and advocacy

In 2006, John Koza, a computer science professor at Stanford, was the lead author of Every Vote Equal, a book that makes a detailed case for his plan for an interstate compact to establish National Popular Vote.[51] (Koza had previously had exposure to interstate compacts from his work with state lottery commissions after inventing the scratch-off lottery ticket.) That year, Koza, Barry Fadem and others formed National Popular Vote, a non-profit group to promote the legislation. The group has a transpartisan advisory committee including former US Senators Jake Garn, Birch Bayh, and David Durenberger, and former Representatives John Anderson, John Buchanan, and Tom Campbell.

By the time of the group's opening news conference in February 2006, the proposed interstate compact had been introduced in the Illinois legislature. With backing from National Popular Vote, the NPVIC legislation was introduced in five additional state legislatures in the 2006 session. It passed in the Colorado Senate and in both houses of the California legislature before being vetoed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Adoption

History of state participation in the NPVIC as of April 2016

In 2007, NPVIC legislation was introduced in 42 states. It was passed by legislative chambers in Arkansas,[52] California,[53] Colorado,[54] Illinois,[55] New Jersey[56] North Carolina,[57] Maryland, and Hawaii.[58] Maryland became the first state to join the compact when Governor Martin O'Malley signed it into law on April 10, 2007.[59]

New Jersey became the second state to enter the compact when Governor Jon S. Corzine signed the bill on January 13, 2008.[60] Illinois became the third state to join when Governor Rod Blagojevich signed it into law on April 7, 2008[55] and Hawaii became the fourth on May 1, 2008, after the legislature overrode a second veto from the governor.[61]

Washington became the fifth state to join when Governor Christine Gregoire signed it into law on April 28, 2009.[62] Massachusetts became the sixth state to join when Governor Deval Patrick signed it into law on August 4, 2010.[63] The District of Columbia entered into the compact when the bill was signed by Mayor Adrian Fenty on October 12, 2010. (Neither chamber of Congress objected to the passage of the bill during the mandatory review period of 30 legislative days following that date, thus allowing the District's action to proceed.)[64]

Vermont joined the compact when Governor Peter Shumlin signed it into law on April 22, 2011.[65] California entered the compact on August 8, 2011, with Governor Jerry Brown's signature.[66] Rhode Island entered the compact on July 12, 2013, with Governor Lincoln Chafee's signature.[67] On April 15, 2014, New York entered the compact with a bipartisan vote in the NY assembly and Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature.[68]

NPVIC legislation has been introduced in all 50 states.[1] States where only one chamber has adopted the legislation are Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Oregon. In Colorado the legislation has passed in both chambers (in different sessions). Bills seeking to repeal the compact in Maryland, New Jersey and Washington have failed.

Jurisdictions enacting law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
No. Jurisdiction Current
Electoral
votes (EV) 		Date adopted
1 Maryland 10 April 10, 2007
2 New Jersey 14 January 13, 2008
3 Illinois 20 April 7, 2008
4 Hawaii 4 May 1, 2008
5 Washington 12 April 28, 2009
6 Massachusetts 11 August 4, 2010
7 District of Columbia 3 December 7, 2010
8 Vermont 3 April 22, 2011
9 California 55 August 8, 2011
10 Rhode Island 4 July 12, 2013
11 New York 29 April 15, 2014
Total 165 (61.1% of the 270 EV needed)

Prospects

Psephologist Nate Silver wrote that, as swing states are unlikely to support a compact that reduces their disproportionate influence, the compact cannot succeed without adoption by "red states".[69] As of 2016, all the states that have adopted the compact are "blue states", ranking within the 14 strongest vote shares for Barack Obama in the 2012 Presidential Election.

Bills

Currently active bills

The table below lists state bills to join the NPVIC that are currently pending (as of April 25, 2016).[70] The "EVs" column indicates the number of electoral votes each state has.

State EVs Session Bill(s) Lower house Upper house Executive Status
 Alaska 3 2015–16 HB 348 in committee[71] — — pending
 Arizona 11 2016 HB 2456, SB 1165 passed[72] introduced[73] — pending
 Georgia 16 2015–16 HB 929, SB 376 passed committee[74] in committee[75] — pending
 Michigan 16 2015–16 SB 88 — in committee[76] — pending
 Minnesota 10 2015–16 HF 1171 in committee[77] — — pending
 Missouri 10 2016 HB 1959, HB 2048, SB 1041 passed committee[78][79] in committee[80] — pending
 Oklahoma 7 2015–16 HB 1686 in committee[81] — — pending
 Pennsylvania 20 2015–16 HB 1542 in committee[82] — — pending
 Tennessee 11 2015–16 HB 1728, SB 1657 in committee[83] in committee[83] — pending

Bills in previous sessions

The table below lists the status of past bills that received a floor vote in at least one chamber of the state's legislature. Bills which failed without a floor vote are not listed. The "EVs" column indicates the number of electoral votes the state had at the time the bill was introduced. This number may have changed since then due to reapportionment following the 2010 Census.

State EVs Session Bill(s) Lower house Upper house Executive Status
Arkansas 6 2007 HB 1703 passed[52] died in committee[52] — failed
2009 HB 1339 passed[84] died in committee[84] — failed
California 55 2005–06 AB 2948 passed[85] passed[85] vetoed[85] failed
2007–08 SB 37 passed[53] passed[53] vetoed[53] failed
2011 AB 459 passed[86] passed[86] signed[66] law
Colorado 9 2006 SB 06-223 died in committee[87] passed — failed
2007 SB 07-046 died in committee[54] passed[54] — failed
2009 HB 1299 passed[88] not voted on[88] — failed
Connecticut 7 2009 HB 6437 passed[89] died in committee — failed
District of Columbia 3 2009–10 B18-0769 passed[90] signed[90] law
Delaware 3 2009–10 HB 198 passed[91] not voted on[91] — failed
2011 HB 55 passed[92] died in committee[92] — failed
Hawaii 4 2007 HB 234,[93] SB 1956 did not override veto[58] overrode veto[58] vetoed[58] failed
2008 HB 3013, SB 2898 overrode veto[94] overrode veto[61] vetoed[61] law
Illinois 21 2007–08 HB 858,[95] HB 1685, SB 78 passed[55] passed[55] signed[55] law
Louisiana 8 2012 HB 1095, SB 705 failed[96] not voted on[97] — failed
Maine 4 2007–08 LD 1744 indef. postponed[98] passed[99] — failed
2013–14 LD 511, S 201 failed 60–85[100] failed 17–17[100] — failed
Maryland 10 2007 HB 148, SB 634 passed[101] passed[101] signed[101] law
Massachusetts 12 2007–08 HB 4952, SB 445[102] passed[103] passed[104] not sent[105] failed
2009–10 H 4156 passed[106] passed[107] signed law
Michigan 17 2007–08 HB 6610 passed 65–36[108] died in committee[108] — failed
Minnesota 10 2013–14 HF799, SF585 failed 62–71[109] died in committee[110] — failed
Montana 3 2007 SB 290 — failed[111] — failed
Nebraska 5 2014 LB1058 passed committee, not voted on[112] — failed
Nevada 5 2009 AB 413 passed[113] died in committee — failed
New Jersey 15 2006–07 A 4225, S 2695 passed[56] passed[56] signed[56] law
New Mexico 5 2009 HB 383 passed[114][115] not voted on[116] — failed
New York 31 2010 A1580B, S2286A not voted on[117] passed[117] — failed
29 2011 A00489, S4208 not voted on[118] passed[119] — failed
2013 A4422, S3149 passed[120] died in committee[120] — failed
2014 A4422, S3149 passed[120] passed[121] signed[68] law
North Carolina 15 2007–08 H1645, S954 died in committee[122] passed[57] — failed
North Dakota 3 2007 HB 1336 failed[123] — — failed
Oklahoma 7 2014 SB906 died in committee[124] passed[124] — failed
Oregon 7 2013 HB 3077, SB 624 passed[125] died in committee[126] — failed
2015 HB 3475 passed[127] died in committee[127] — failed
Rhode Island 4 2008 H 7707, S 2112 passed[128] passed[128] vetoed[128] failed
2009 HB 5569, SB 161 failed[129][130] passed[129] — failed
2011 HB 5659, SB 164 not voted on[131] passed[131] — failed
2013 H 5575, S 346 passed[132] passed[132] signed[4] law[4]
Vermont 3 2007–08 H 373, S 270 passed[133] passed[133] vetoed[133] failed
2009–10 S 34 died in committee[134] passed[134] — failed
2011–12 S 31[135] passed[136] passed[136] signed[137] law
Washington 11 2007–08 HB 1750, SB 5628 died in committee[138] passed[139] — failed
2009–10 HB 1598, SB 5599 passed[140] passed[140] signed law

See also

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