<div dir="ltr">Here's a <a href="http://metapolitics.quora.com/Why-the-Electoral-College-is-a-good-thing-%E2%80%94-and-its-coming-end-is-even-better">blog post I wrote</a> about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and approval voting. Basically, my argument is that the NPVIC as written (now 61% of the way to taking effect) would already allow individual states to use approval voting in presidential elections. Here are the key passages:<div>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The chief election official of each member state shall designate the presidential slate with the largest national popular vote total as the “national popular vote winner.”<br>
...<br>“statewide popular election” shall mean a general election in which votes are cast for presidential slates by individual voters and counted on a statewide basis</blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Obviously, there would be legal challenges if this were to happen. But a simple, direct reading of the text provides no reason to believe such challenges would prosper.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think that the recent addition of NY state to the NPVIC is a good news hook for talking about approval voting.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jameson</div><div><br></div><div>(note: I wrote the blog post for an intended audience that already believes that Bush was a horrible president. No intent to offend anybody here who disagrees with that.)</div>
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