{"id":1614166,"date":"2024-04-16T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=7c59ccda1ace4d153f2bfbd0131e5427"},"modified":"2024-04-16T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:10:06","slug":"maine-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-ending-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/16\/maine-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-ending-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Brings US \u201cOne Step Closer\u201d to Ending Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine has become the 18th jurisdiction in the United States to pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which, if enacted, would end the Electoral College&rsquo;s influence in the selection process for the office of president. The bill, which was passed by the Democratic-controlled state legislature, made it to Gov. Janet Mills&rsquo;s (D) desk last week. Mills opted not to sign the bill but also...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/maine-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-ending-electoral-college\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/maine-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-ending-electoral-college\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine accepted the interstate agreement after Democratic Gov. Janet Mills refused to sign or veto the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,786,54835,78478,4,52548,12125],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614167,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614166\/revisions\/1614167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}