A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner.
With Virginia, the total number of states signed on to the interstate compact is now 18, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 222 electoral votes.
The compact doesn’t go into effect, though, until there are enough states signed up to reach the required 270 electoral votes to elect a president.
This is an interesting question with a bit of a complicated answer filled with back-stabbing and duplicity. You are right, it’s not totally correct to simply say it was 100 years ago;
This is one of those things that was never applied to all Indian nations, because it was done individually through each Indian nation. Usually through the removal process. For instance, in my tribe, the Cherokee Nation, the Treaty of New Echota was signed in 1835 and the language regarding whether it meant a voting or non-voting member is still up for debate. Nearly 200 years later this is still an ongoing issue.
The reason people usually say 100 years is because the Indian Wars ended in the 1920s and that’s when the last removal and reservation agreements were signed.