[20191029]IF11191_NPV全国全民投票倡议：提议通过州际契约直接选举总统.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated October 29, 2019NPVThe National Popular Vote Initiative: Proposing Direct Election of the President Through an Interstate CompactOrigins The National Popular Vote (NPV) Initiative is a nongovernmental advocacy campaign that promotes direct popular election of the President and Vice President through an agreement among states, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (for additional information, see CRS Report R43823, The National Popular Vote (NPV) Initiative: Direct Election of the President by Interstate Compact). NPVs origins have been traced to the 2000 presidential election. In that contest, Republican nominee George W. Bush won the presidency with a majority of 271 electoral votes to his Democratic opponent Al Gore Jr.s 266, but Gore received 537,209 more popular votes nationwide than his opponent. This outcome, sometimes referred to as an electoral college “misfire,” particularly by opponents of the system, occurred because (1) the Constitution requires a majority of electoral votes, not popular votes, to win; and (2) most states award electoral votes on a “winner-take-all” basisthe popular vote winner takes all the states electora