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Virginia joins National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

politicsMay 12, 2026231,094

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law, making Virginia the latest state to bind its electors to the nationwide popular vote winner. Under the compact, participating states pledge to award all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote once states totaling 270 electoral votes have joined. By adding Virginia, the effort moves closer to the 270 threshold that would make the national popular vote determine future presidential elections rather than the current Electoral College allocation.

MJ
@bstnboy.bsky.social

It's in the works: National Popular Vote Interstate Compact @nationalpopularvote.com

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lizmckenzie559

A pipe dream bigly! It would require a Constitutional Amendment which means passing by 2/3s in BOTH Houses of Congress ... AND Ratification by 3/4s of the STATES. I hate crap like this. No phucking chance it will happen yet politicians feed it to their base.

bermynick.bsky.social7

See also; Citizens United, gerrymandering, unequal Senate representation and total lack of representation for DC and PR. Electoral reform needs to be top priority.

mrfrodough.bsky.social4

Citation? This meme is spreading and not a single person can back it up so far.

Maynard Flash3

Absolutely, the electoral college needs to be done away with

defiantbynature.bsky.social2

We also need to rebalance the Senate. The 600,000 people of Wyoming shouldn't totally cancel out the 39,000,000 in California, especially when confirming supreme Court judges.

Indelicate Features 🐜👁🧊2

So what? Pete is neither particularly wise nor ahead of the curve in expressing this. 1. Even a kindergartener can see the need. 2. Red states will never go along, so it doesn't matter.

Hister3332

The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College to keep voters from putting dumbfucks in The White House. Unfortunately, all it's ever done is put dumbfucks in The White House.

Jack The Cat2

America is dead. America died the moment the Supreme Court put their candidate above the law and gave him immunity. If We The People had acted then instead of waiting for fictitious elections that will never come, we might fixed it but now it’s too late. 😪🔥🌎

Marc DesRuisseaux 🇨🇦2

The USA is the only country still using the Electoral College…. Every other democracy in the world has moved on from this archaic voting method. Yes, it’s time for a positive change.

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