How is it unconstitutional? The states can allocate their electoral votes any way they choose. They can award them based on the outcome of a cock-fight if they wish.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
If it eventually becomes law, the legislation would take effect only if states with a combined 270 electoral votes - the number now required to win the presidency - also agreed to decide the election by popular vote. Similar legislation is pending in Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana and Missouri.Well it is a compact between states. According to the bills being passed in several states, this system would go into effect if states accounting for 270 electoral votes pass this legislation. This amounts to a compact between states, and the US Constitution requires that any compact between states or between a state and a foreign government must be approved by Congress. I don't see anywhere that Congress passed any resolution on this matter, so it violates Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
that's what i thought too
just think, now californians won't even have to vote (as it doesn't really matter which way that state goes) + bush still wins 00 and 04 under the formula
Read carefully. It is designed to do away with electoral college altogether by tying to other states' way of awarding their electoral votes. Unconstitutional because it amounts to amending the constitution by collusion among a few states.