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> Do states currently trust that other states hold fair elections to determine how their electors vote? I don't see any change here.

Currently the effects of any illegal voting are contained to the state that the illegal voting happened in; North Dakota's electors aren't going to vote differently even if there are 6 million illegal votes in California. With an NPV that isn't the case.

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Illegal voting is extremely rare. A bigger problem is election fraud.

Why would there be 6 million illegal votes in California? That's a pretty far-fetched premise to base your voting system arguments on.

There are those on the right that think over a million of illegal votes happen (based on estimates of number of illegal aliens, surveys of if they vote, lack of voter ID in certain states, etc.)

The current system is resistant to these concerns, so the lack of a nation-wide voter ID is less important than it would be with a national popular vote.

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