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''Each square in the lower cartogram represents one electoral vote.'' | type = | date_drafted = February 2006 | date_signed = | location_signed = | date_sealed = | date_effective = ''Not in effect'' | condition_effective = Adoption by several of the states and including the District of Columbia whose collective electoral vote total represents an absolute majority of votes (at least 270) in the Electoral College. ''Note: The agreement would be in effect only among the assenting constituent political entities.'' | date_expiration = | signatories = * California * District of Columbia * Hawaii * Illinois * Maryland * Massachusetts * New Jersey * New York * Rhode Island * Vermont * Washington | depositor = | language = | wikisource = Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote }} The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among several U.S. states plus the District of Columbia to award all their respective electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationwide. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who wins the most popular votes nationwide is elected president. (Currently, a candidate could lose the popular vote nationally but still win the presidency with Electoral College votes.) The compact has not yet come into effect. , it had been joined by ten states and the District of Columbia; their 165 combined electoral votes amount to of the total Electoral College vote, and of the 270 votes needed for it to have legal force. ==Mechanism== Proposed in the form of an interstate compact, the agreement would go into effect among the participating states in the compact only after they collectively represent an absolute majority of votes (currently at least 270) in the Electoral College. In the next presidential election after adoption by the requisite number of states, the participating states would award all of their electoral votes to presidential electors associated with the candidate who wins the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As a result, the national popular vote would always win the presidency by always winning a majority of votes in the Electoral College. Until the compact's conditions are met, all states award electoral votes in their current manner. The compact would modify the way participating states implement Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which requires each state legislature to define a method to appoint its electors to vote in the Electoral College. The Constitution does not mandate any particular legislative scheme for selecting electors, and instead vests state legislatures with the exclusive power to choose how to allocate its own electors.〔〔McPherson v. Blacker 〕 States have chosen various methods of allocation over the years, with regular changes in the nation's early decades. Today, all but two states (Maine and Nebraska) award all their electoral votes to the candidate with the most votes statewide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Popular Vote Interstate Compact」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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