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A change to presidential elections is the last thing you might expect to find in an omnibus spending bill. But that is where you’ll find the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) in Minnesot…

Apparently, folks at the National Popular Vote (NPV) organization are getting a bit desperate. What else could explain their lying to the Michigan legislature (and Nevada too) about my testimony on o…

The National Popular Vote campaign has targeted Maine and its four electoral votes for years. Now a new bill has been introduced in the state House of Representatives (LD1578). If passed, it would gi…

In 2019, former Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak vetoed a National Popular Vote bill. He rightly noted that the National Popular Vote compact would diminish Nevada’s role in presidential elections. Now …

A few days ago, I wrote that the organization pushing the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) continues to claim there is no conflict between the compact and Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). Bu…

For several years I’ve made the point that the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is incompatible with Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). That system, adopted by Alaska and Maine and proposed in…

The Electoral College is sometimes derided as unfair, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The allocation of electoral votes is based on the census and is equal to a state’s number of represe…

The midterm elections are over, so now the question is: Who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees for President in 2024? Americans will sort that out over the next 18 months. Assuming Joe Bi…

More than two years ago I wrote a post titled “NPV to Maine: Drop Dead” inspired by a lobbyist for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) complaining that in order to win the electoral vo…