The North Carolina legislature adjourned at 10:30 pm Thursday evening, August 2. Neither bill concerning the electoral college passed. Those bills were SB 353 (letting each U.S. House district elect its own presidential elector) and SB 954 (the National Popular Vote Plan). Democrats control both houses of the North Carolina legislature and hold the governorship.
The entrenched parties are brittle and risk-averse. If a reform does not clearly advantage both of them against insurgent popular, in the sense of “outsider”, candidates. it is moot and ka-put.