The compact is explained simply by Underhill, "It would require electors to vote for the candidate who wins the most votes nationwide (Underhill, 2012)." This is known as the National Popular Vote Plan(NPV).
I support the current electoral college system of electing the President of the United States. I think it does just what the founders of the Constitution were trying to do which was to allow small states to have a representing voice to make their unique challenges and interests known while recognizing larger states …show more content…
This seems like a sneaky way to get around the current system and in Gregg's article he quotes one proponent, Washington Post Columnist E.J. Dionne as admitting, "this is an effort to circumvent the cumbersome process of amending the Constitution (Gregg, 2011)." Amending the constitution should be an extremely difficult process and if, as Gregg says in his article, hundreds of attempts of amending the Constitution on the matter of the Electoral College have failed, opponents of the Electoral College should not be allowed to scheme up a way of getting around electoral reform (Gregg,