Conservatives have expressed legitimate concern about the National Popular Vote (NPV) project, an effort led largely by the Left to bypass the Electoral College and elect the president through a national popular vote.
This is not an effort to amend the Constitution, which would be enormously difficult. Instead, what the NPV seeks is an agreement or “compact” among the states, in which all the electoral votes of the participating states would be cast for the winner of the national popular vote, irrespective of who actually wins the electoral votes in each of the states that have joined the compact. For example, if California were in the compact (it is) and John Doe won the most popular votes in the national election, all of California’s electoral votes would be cast for Doe, even if Marilyn Moe had actually won the popular vote in California.
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