* § 12-402. Adoption and text of compact. The agreement among the\nstates to elect the president by national popular vote is adopted and\nenacted into law as follows:\n ARTICLE I\n Membership. Any state of the United States and the District of\nColumbia may become a member of this agreement by enacting this\nagreement.\n ARTICLE II\n Right of the people in member states to vote for president and vice\npresident. Each member state shall conduct a statewide popular election\nfor president and vice president of the United States.\n ARTICLE III\n Manner of appointing presidential electors in member states. 1. Prior\nto the time set by law for the meeting and voting by the presidential\nelectors, the chief election official of each member state shall\ndetermine the number of votes for each presidential slate in each state\nof the United States and in the District of Columbia in which votes have\nbeen cast in a statewide popular election and shall add such votes\ntogether to produce a "national popular vote total" for each\npresidential slate.\n 2. The chief election official of each member state shall designate\nthe presidential slate with the largest national popular vote total as\nthe "national popular vote winner".\n 3. The presidential elector certifying official of each member state\nshall certify the appointment in that official's own state of the\nelector slate nominated in that state in association with the national\npopular vote winner.\n 4. At least six days before the day fixed by law for the meeting and\nvoting by the presidential electors, each member state shall make a\nfinal determination of the number of popular votes cast in the state for\neach presidential slate and shall communicate an official statement of\nsuch determination within twenty-four hours to the chief election\nofficial of each other member state.\n 5. The chief election official of each member state shall treat as\nconclusive an official statement containing the number of popular votes\nin a state for each presidential slate made by the day established by\nfederal law for making a state's final determination conclusive as to\nthe counting of electoral votes by congress.\n 6. In event of a tie for the national popular vote winner, the\npresidential elector certifying official of each member state shall\ncertify the appointment of the elector slate nominated in association\nwith the presidential slate receiving the largest number of popular\nvotes within that official's own state.\n 7. If, for any reason, the number of presidential electors nominated\nin a member state in association with the national popular vote winner\nis less than or greater than that state's number of electoral votes, the\npresidential candidate on the presidential slate that has been\ndesignated as the national popular vote winner shall have the power to\nnominate the presidential electors for that state and that state's\npresidential elector certifying official shall certify the appointment\nof such nominees.\n 8. The chief election official of each member state shall immediately\nrelease to the public all vote counts or statements of votes as they are\ndetermined or obtained.\n 9. This article shall govern the appointment of presidential electors\nin each member state in any year in which this agreement is, on July\ntwentieth, in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the\nelectoral votes.\n ARTICLE IV\n Other provisions. This agreement shall take effect when states\ncumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes have enacted\nthis agreement in substantially the same form and the enactments by such\nstates have taken effect in each state. Any member state may withdraw\nfrom this agreement, except that a withdrawal occurring six months or\nless before the end of a president's term shall not become effective\nuntil a pres
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