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Left-wing coalition calls for the abolishment of the Electoral College
July 11, 2025 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
Project 2029 is a coalition of left-leaning groups struggling to find an agenda. The group recently released its first policy brief, which calls for executive action to push states into the National …
Read More →RCV is just one flavor of “election reform”
July 1, 2025 by Trent England in Elections
After more than $100 million was spent pushing ranked-choice voting in failed state ballot measures last year, more people are aware of this reform proposal. What many don’t know is that there are se…
Read More →Maine NPV repeal passed House, stalls in Senate
June 20, 2025 by Trent England in Electoral College
This year, Maine made history when its House of Representatives voted to repeal the National Popular Vote interstate compact. In fact, the House voted twice to send the repeal to the Senate. But desp…
Read More →National Popular Vote petition filed in Missouri
June 19, 2025 by Staff in Electoral College
A ballot petition was recently filed in Missouri to adopt the National Popular Vote (NPV) interstate compact. Petition 2026-068 intended to force Missouri to award its 10 electoral votes to the natio…
Read More →Maine House passes NPV repeal
May 21, 2025 by Trent England in Electoral College
A bipartisan majority in the Maine House of Representatives passed LD 252 to repeal the state’s participation in the National Popular Vote interstate compact, just a year after the state had signed o…
Read More →Maine moves towards NPV repeal
May 15, 2025 by Trent England in Electoral College
The Maine House of Representatives will vote soon on whether to withdraw from the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). The bill is LD 252. The state joined NPV last year, but that bill onl…
Read More →NPV Fails in Nevada
April 14, 2025 by Trent England in Electoral College
A multi-year effort to add Nevada to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) has failed due to bipartisan opposition. Friday, April 11, was the deadline for bills to advance out of committ…
Read More →More concerns about NPV’s “let judges decide” approach
April 9, 2025 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
A recent post by Trent England explained some of the problems with the approach advocated by lobbyists for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) when it comes to how disputes or disagree…
Read More →NPV’s Illusory Litigation Solution
March 31, 2025 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One of the key weaknesses of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that member states are supposed to obtain the vote totals of every state that holds a “statewide popular election,” …
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