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Re:Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion l... by alasdair_ on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:50AM (#28498896)
Almost all of the states needed to ratify the national popular vote interstate compact have either done so or will do so soon.

It’s definitely not a done deal yet but it’s within reach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Inters...

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Re:Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion l... by kadoban on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:07AM (#28498966)
What states that are left are actually going to sign on?

And do you really think the current Supreme Court would let that stand? It seems unlikely to me.

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Re:Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion l... by alasdair_ on Sunday September 12, 2021 @08:29PM (#28506556)
Individual states are allowed to choose how to apportion their own electoral college votes.

In the pst those votes were allocated proportionally to the votes but now almost all states assign all EC votes to a single candidate.

I’m not sure what the supreme court can do here if the states change the way they want to assign votes.

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Re:Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion l... by kadoban on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:23PM (#28506858)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact seems like it would be at least close enough to a problem that the current Supreme Court would kill it.
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