National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

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16. P.S.

As Wikipedia points out "Not all compacts between states require explicit Congressional approval - the Supreme Court ruled in Virginia v. Tennessee that only those agreements which would increase the power of states at the expense of the federal government required it."

I would argue that how a state allocates it's electors is exclusively the prerogative of the state. Deciding to allocate electors based on the national popular vote under a particular set of circumstances is not "increasing the power of the states at the expense of the Federal government" because the Federal government has put the power to determine how electors are allocated into the hands of state legislatures. Under the electoral count act, it is the role of Congress to judge whether or not electors were lawfully appointed, but that judgment is to be made based on the applicable state law.