This article in Vox says that if the predicted blue wave is big enough and deep enough in legislative and Governor elections in certain states, the National Popular Vote plan may go into effect before the 2028 presidential election.

With the recent passage of the compact agreement in Virginia, states that have 222 electoral votes have passed the compact. Only states with at least 48 more electoral votes need to pass it for it to become effective, pending, of course, the inevitable legal challenges.

The article says that the targeted states for the compact’s advocates are Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New Hampshire.

Here is the column. And, thanks to Independent Political Report for giving us the heads up on this.

I wish I could be as optimistic as Colin Pascal. Legislators are slowly ratcheting up ballot access barriers. It will take more people willing to work for ballot access reform, as well as electoral changes to move away from our Single Member Plurality elections in this nation, in my opinion, which is not addressed in this oped.