I am sorry to tell you that no one is really working on anything with a realistic chance of eliminating the electoral college.

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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has very little chance of ever being fully implemented

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Even if it were, it does nothing to resolve the problem of the insane partisan primary system - the one with the delegates and every state having different rules for awarding delegates - or with plurality voting during the primary or general election. Trump, for example, was probably only able to win the GOP primary by standing out in plurality elections among 17 other candidates. 

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Fairvote.org did a great piece showing how Trump would not have won the GOP primary if Instant Runoff Voting had been used.

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Then you also have the issue of minor party candidates being "spoilers," which isn't even a fair thing to call them, when they are just trying to contribute to the political discourse.

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California can fix this, and I will do my very best to make that happen in the California Senate.

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An interstate compact is very hard to put in place.

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But what California can do is support the creation of an Instant Runoff National Popular Vote  (IRNPV) primary, throughout all states + DC, that includes all candidates from all parties. 

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This may involve California administering a vote-by-mail election for the whole nation, or working with an NGO that would administer it.

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Then California can unilaterally pledge its 55 electoral votes to the winner of this primary. Maybe other big states who've had enough of the electoral college would do the same, not in a compact, but unilaterally. But California alone, is enough.

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If California did this, the Democratic Party would likely not want to forfeit the 55 electoral college votes, which it is accustomed to receiving from California.

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The Democratic Party would have to scrap their primary, and have all its candidates compete in this IRNPV primary. 

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Now we would essentially have one candidate who won the right kind of election the right way, and is already guaranteed California's 55 electoral college votes (20.3% of the amount needed to win).

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The Republicans could keep their crazy primary if they want, but their process is unlikely to produce a candidate who can compete with one who wins an Instant Runoff National Popular Vote (IRNPV), and they would probably even know this.

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California would essentially be breaking the Electoral College system, potentially forcing the federal government's hand to amend the Constitution to officially adopt an IRNPV system for electing the President.

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Even if they don't, or until they do, the candidate who wins this California-supported IRNPV primary will be likely to win the general election every time. The GOP may even feel compelled to give up their primary and run all their candidates in it as well.

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We all know our Presidential elections are toxic and disgusting. I hope you'll support me in creating the healthy process we deserve.