Electoral College, Shmectoral College

The MA House and Senate are setting up the state to help usurp the Electoral College as part of the "National Popular Vote" campaign. Enactment votes will send the bill to Deval Patrick for his signature. The consequence of this bill will be to push all 12 of the state's electoral college votes to the winner of the national popular vote instead of the will of the people of MA.

If the campaigners can go state-by-state to get 270 of the 538 electoral votes to be decided in this manner, then the national popular vote winner would become the President. The 5 states that have already chosen to vote in this manner constitute 23% of the 270 votes that they need to secure their plan.