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Razor-thin results in a few states, in turn, generate post-election doubt, controversy, litigation, and unrest over real, imagined, or manufactured irregularities.
All-or-nothing payoffs at the state level make the national outcome extremely sensitive to fraud, foreign interference, and random events. A sound election system should possess a high level of resistance to the impact of minor influences.
Close elections are a recurring feature of the current system of electing the President because its “state-by-state” nature divides the nation’s voters into 51 separate state-level pools of votes. After this Balkanization, a one, two, or three closely divided states almost inevitably end up being extremely close on Election Day.
Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the outcome of an election would be based on multi-million-vote nationwide margins—not microscopic margins in a couple of states.
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