• laranis@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      I did miss that nuance, but not sure it impacts the ability of the parties to do something this radical.

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        3 days ago

        The allusion is to the state-level pact several states have made to always assign their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state. With Texas and other flipping, that makes enough states to be over 270 votes, meaning if all those new blue state governments join the compact, the EC essentially doesn’t matter anymore.