Bill Granting Oregon Voting Votes to National Voting Winner Goes to Governor's Office

The Oregon House voted overwhelmingly to pass a law that would award the votes of the state's electoral college to any candidate winning the national popular vote in a presidential election.

The state chamber voted Tuesday to advance the measure at a vote by 37 votes to 22, reported CNN. The bill, which passed through the state Senate earlier this year, is now headed to Democratic Governor Kate Brown.

"Before the time fixed by law for the meeting and the vote of the presidential electors, the Election Officer of each Member State shall determine the number of votes for each Presidential List in each State of the United States and in the District of Columbia which votes were cast in a popular election at the state level and must be added together to obtain a "total national popular vote" for each presidential list, "states the text of the bill .

"The election official of each member state will nominate the" winner of the national popular vote "as the list of candidates for the presidential election with the highest number of national popular votes," the bill continues. "The elector who has presided over the certification of each Member State shall certify the appointment in his own State of the list of electors appointed in that State in association with the winner of the national popular vote."

The bill also notes that if the law is adopted, it will only come into force when several states with a majority of the 538 votes of the Electoral College have acceded to the agreement, also known as the National Pact between votes popular.

"This agreement will come into force when the States having cumulatively a majority of the electoral votes have promulgated substantially in the same form and the acts adopted by these states will have taken effect in each state," says the bill.

Until now, only 14 states and Washington DC have adhered to the pact.

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