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Those who wish to eliminate the Electoral College should be careful what they wish for. In an effort to effectively eliminate the Electoral College, 18 states have entered into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, promising to enact state laws awarding all their state's electors to the winner of the national popular vote. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris carried all 18, plus two others.
If Colorado (10 electors), New Mexico (5), California (54), Oregon (8), Washington (12), Minnesota (10), Illinois (19), New York (28), Hawaii (4), Vermont (3), Massachusetts (11), Rhode Island (4), Connecticut (7), New Jersey (14), Delaware (3), Maryland (10), Maine (4) and the District of Columbia (3) were to fulfill their promises to award all electors to the popular vote winner, President Donald Trump would have received 521 electoral votes instead of just the 312 votes from the states he carried on Nov. 5. People are also reading.
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