State To Vote on Movement To Decide Presidential Elections by Popular Vote
Colorado voters on Tuesday will weigh in on a ballot measure that could overturn the 2019 decision of their Democrat-controlled legislature and governor to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV compact), potentially depriving the movement of the state’s nine electoral votes.
The NPV compact is a group of states that agree, if their coalition grows to include 270 electoral votes, that they will award their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote. According to the compact’s website, there are currently 15 states and Washington, D.C. that are in the compact, totaling 196 electoral votes.
One of those states is Colorado, which in 2019 passed legislation to join the compact. But voters there will have the opportunity to overturn that law and exit the compact after a group opposing the compact collected more than 225,000 signatures in support of repealing the law.
The vote on Tuesday is the first time a state joined the compact and later had it challenged in a voter referendum. If the law is overturned it would represent a victory for those who support the Electoral College system as it currently stands.
“When the founders came up with the Electoral College, they recognized it as a brilliant compromise that respected the fact that the power comes from the people, but we also have states,” Trent England, the executive director of Save Our States, a group that opposes the NPV compact, told Fox News. “It prevented the biggest states or the biggest cities from controlling everything … it’s still true today.” (Read more from “State To Vote on Movement To Decide Presidential Elections by Popular Vote” HERE)
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