North Carolina voters who enjoyed all the attention and presidential candidate visits last May could see that kind of hoopla every year, according to a popular vote advocate visiting the legislature today.
Barry Fadem, president of National Popular Vote, will be in Raleigh pushing again for North Carolina to join a coalition of states that want to elect the next president by popular vote. The Senate passed such a bill last year, but the House did not. A similar bill is expected to be debated this year.
The legislation wouldn't take effect until it is passed by enough states to total 270 electoral votes, the number needed to elect a president. Once they reach that number, all of those states will award their electors as a bloc to the winner of the national popular vote.
Fadem previously has emphasized that North Carolina would no longer be a safe Republican state that candidates from both parties ignored. Republicans counter that such an agreement would upend the electoral process, because a candidate could lose in North Carolina but still win its electoral votes.
Blog RSS feed
