This week, Massachusetts will likely become the sixth state to enact a National Popular Vote (NPV) bill. Under the proposal, all of the state's electoral votes will be awarded to the presidential candidate that wins the popular vote nationally, thereby subverting the controversial Electoral College. If states representing 270 electoral votes ultimately ratify similar legislation, that antiquated system would essentially be abolished.

Illinois, if you will recall, signed an NPV bill in the spring of 2008, becoming the third state to do so. It remains a strong decision. The Electoral College was implemented in an era with an utterly different electoral landscape. Today, it sidelines voters who don't live in the shrinking number of battleground states, depresses turnout, and distorts which policies are prioritized at the national level. In other words, it needs to go.