10-25-2011, 07:54 AM
RgrF wrote:
Cannot the National Popular Vote approach, if not adopted by a super majority of states, lead to distortions in Electoral vote distribution? If this is adopted by many blue states but not by most red and swing states, what would those distortions look like?
It would make my head hurt to try and research past elections for comparison, so hopefully someone has already done that grunt stuff.
edit: to cross a t
Not in any way that would effect the outcome of an election. You should read up on the NPV approach. It doesn't go into 'effect' until the states that have passed it possess, collectively, enough electoral votes (270) to decide the winner. Once that happens, ALL of those states will commit ALL of their votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote, therefore deciding the winner, regardless of how other states vote.
It could affect final totals of the electoral vote count, but the final ratio is immaterial.