I've always preferred keeping the EC the way it is. If Maine wants to split their EC votes, that's there business.
Agreed. Our Founding Fathers intended for the States to have power. But in 1861, they lost the right to peacefully exit the Union, and in 1913, they lost their representation in the federal legislature. If we take away the rights of the States to select our President, then there won't be any need to have states, especially when considering how the courts have denied States the right to establish their own laws by imposing their tyranny upon them with decisions like Roe and Obergefell.
The big problem I have with this NPV movement is, the State will have an election, then ignore the votes in favor of votes cast in another State. Sounds like a violation of Equal Protection.
I would argue that any State that allows other States to choose its electors has marginalized its own voters by diluting their voting right, and thus should lose House seats in proportion to their own voting population against the national voting population.
Amendment XIV, Sec 2:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
So for example, if a State like California has 15 million voters, yet they allow 150 million national voters choose their electors, then they have effectively diluted the voting rights of their own citizens by 90%, and thus should lose 90% of their House seats.