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This is insanity. Voting sites should be under the control of the federal government and run by nonpartisan commissions. States and especially not some county courthouse should have no control over whether or not a polling site exists. Polling sites should be based on population density regardless of voter turnout and Election Day should be a national holiday where everyone has the opportunity and ability to vote locally. All of this should be written into the constitution. This is pure voter suppression and anyone attempting this should be charged.
States legislators are the ones who choose electors to send to the Congress for the official vote. Technically, they can do whatever they want and ignore the votes of the people. You would need a constitutional amendment to chang be the way voting works and have the federal government control voting and elector selection requirements.
But hark! There is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This initiative seeks to ensure that the U.S. president is elected based on the national popular vote rather than the Electoral College system. States that join the compact agree to allocate their electors to the candidate who wins the national popular vote, but it only takes effect once enough states join to total 270 electoral votes—the number needed to win the presidency.
It doesn’t require a constitutional amendment but works within the current system. However, for it to be implemented, enough states must sign on, representing a majority of the Electoral College votes.