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Bills have been made proposing constitutional amendments that would replace the Electoral College with the popular election of the president and vice president. [34] [35] Unlike the Bayh–Celler amendment, with its 40% threshold for election, these proposals do not require a candidate to achieve a certain percentage of votes to be elected.
A September 2020 Gallup poll showed support for amending the U.S. Constitution to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote rose to 61% with 38% opposed, similar to levels prior to the 2016 election, although the partisan divide continued with support from 89% of Democrats and 68% of independents, but only 23% of Republicans. [93]
Representative Emanuel Celler (D-New York), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, responded to public concerns over the disparity between the popular vote and electoral vote by introducing House Joint Resolution 681, a proposed constitutional amendment to replace the Electoral College with a simpler two-round system based on the national ...
The Electoral College also disproportionally represents smaller states. The number of electoral votes a state receives is equal to the number of senators and representatives a state has. All ...
Three Democratic senators unveiled a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College system Monday, just more than a month after President-elect Trump stunned the Democrats by sweeping ...
With 528 Electoral College votes available in total, a majority of 270 is required for a candidate to win the White House. On November 5, ...
However, the same effect could be achieved if the Electoral College representatives from states with a majority of the electoral votes were all committed to voting for the presidential slate that achieves a national plurality (or the majority after instant-runoff voting): Presidential candidates would then have to compete for votes in all 50 ...
There is an effort underway in the U.S. to replace the Electoral College. It may not even require amending the Constitution. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, currently agreed to by 17 ...