As governor he got his state signed on to the national popular vote interstate compact

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    There’s still the electoral college which needs to go, creating a half-assed workaround which could easily be dissolved is not a fix. It’s nothing other than a spit and a handshake

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      It’s more than a “handshake”. States are actually passing laws for this. Plus there’s nothing stopping you from going above 270 electoral votes

      Once it’s been in effect for a while, it would make a formal constitutional ammendment to fully remove it a lot easier to get though

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        Once it’s been in effect for a while

        It will never be in effect “for awhile”. If they ever get to 270, it will last one election cycle at most. More likely, it will be dissolved between the time it comes into effect and the first general election afterward.