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HAMMER: The Electoral College Is Under Assault. Here’s Why It’s Worth Saving.

Josh Hammer

It has never been clearer that the Electoral College is under systemic assault.

It has become de rigueur for 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to casually excoriate the institution in no uncertain terms, and oftentimes vow to eliminate it via constitutional amendment. Furthermore, as The Daily Wire reported this morning, Nevada is the latest state to pass a bill that adds the Silver State to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV), which, if upheld as constitutional after 270 Electoral College votes’ worth of states join, would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As I explained last month, the NPV project is largely funded and promoted by partisan Democratic activists, including a California-based computer scientist named John Koza.

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