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Jeff Merkley: “If enough states say, by law, that they will award their electoral votes to the individual getting the most popular…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2020
If enough states say, by law, that they will award their electoral votes to the individual getting the most popular votes nationally, suddenly, we have a national popular vote system. And that effort is well underway.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
Source
msnbc.com

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Merkley explains the potential for a national popular vote system through state laws.

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