Does House Joint Resolution 28, the Voting Rights Amendment, eliminate the Electoral College?
A. No! The elimination of the Electoral College is proposed in House Joint Resolution 36 (109th Congress), which would allow us to elect the President and Vice President on the basis of a majority of the popular vote or oneperson, one-vote. The two ideas a right to vote and elimination of the Electoral College were deliberately separated because many Americans support only one or the other idea, but not both ideas together. H. J. Res. 28 only requires the Electors from each state to cast their Electoral College votes for the candidate who wins a majority of the popular votes in that state. Under the present Constitution, a state legislature can ignore the popular vote in a state and elect their own electors to the Electoral College regardless of the popular vote in the state as the Republicans were prepared to do in Florida in 2000.
