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  The   National Popular Vote Interstate Compact   ( NPVIC ) is an agreement among a group of   U.S. states   and the   District of Columbia   to award all their   electoral votes   to whichever   presidential candidate   wins the overall   popular vote   in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected   president , and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome. [2] [3]   As of June 2022, it has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia. These states have 195 electoral votes, which is   36% of the   Electoral College   and   72% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact   legal force . Certain legal questions may affect implementation of the compact. Some legal observers believe that the compact will require explicit congressional consent under the  Compact Clause of Article I, Section X  of the  U.S. Constitution , or that states have the 

Listen to RADIOLAB episode NO SPECIAL DUTY - police are evil. Since the massacre that took the lives of 19 schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, people across the world began to ask versions of one question: why did police wait outside the door instead of protecting the kids? It's not the first time this question has come up. Two years ago, as she watched police respond to the protests that followed the death of George Floyd, Producer B.A. Parker wondered: what are police  for ? With the help of our Producer Sarah Qari, she found that the United States’ Supreme Court had given this a most consequential and bewildering answer. We decided to re-air this episode to shed light on how a case from 2005 upended our assumptions about the role police are meant to play in our lives. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of  The Lab  (https://members.radiolab.org/)  today.      Radiolab is on YouTube!  ( https://zpr.io/MTSFMLXQWDkE)   Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive.