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Nevada Senate advances NPV
Posted by Trent England in State Updates on May 19, 2023
Yesterday, the Nevada Senate passed Assembly Joint Resolution 6, which could eventually join the state to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). The process is convoluted. The reasons ar…
Read More →Nevada Assembly passes unprecedented NPV measure
Posted by Trent England in State Updates on Apr 21, 2023
This week, the Nevada Assembly passed AJR6, to place the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) in the Nevada Constitution. All Democrats present voted for the resolution; all Republicans vot…
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Minnesota House hides, passes NPV compact
Posted by Trent England in State Updates on Apr 20, 2023
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…
Read More →Lies, damned lies, and… edits?
Posted by Sean Parnell on Apr 18, 2023
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…
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National Popular Vote bill introduced in the Maine House of Representatives
Posted by Harry Roth in State Updates on Apr 11, 2023
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…
Read More →Constitutional amendment to adopt NPV introduced in the Nevada State Assembly
Posted by Harry Roth in State Updates on Mar 24, 2023
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 …
Read More →Voting reform community sees major problem with National Popular Vote
Posted by Sean Parnell on Jan 23, 2023
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…
Read More →National Popular Vote’s continuing problem with ranked-choice voting
Posted by Sean Parnell on Jan 17, 2023
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…
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The Electoral College is Fair
Posted by Harry Roth on Jan 10, 2023
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…
Read More →Time is running out
There is a real, immediate threat to the constitutional way we elect our president. National Popular Vote is 76% of the way to implementing their dangerous plan.