HARTFORD — By a slim margin, the House gave a thumbs up Thursday to Connecticut joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. If Connecticut joined the interstate agreement, it would promise to give all seven of its Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular vote in presidential elections. So far 10 other states and the District of Columbia — with a collective 165 electoral votes — have made this promise. “The people of the United States of America should elect directly the president of the United States of America,” said Rep. Bob Godfrey, D-Danbury. “The whole point of this is to remove state influence and return power of the people.
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