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Unfinished Recounts and litigation could thwart the compact
May 10, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One thing is clear from my years defending the Electoral College: the people at NPV, Inc. don’t understand the presidential election process or how the compact is supposed to work. For example, in a …
Read More →Bipartisan Election Reform: Hold local, state and federal elections together
May 7, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Elections
I’m happy that Save Our States is expanding to address other areas of election policy. As someone who’s worked for more than a decade and a half in this area, to paraphrase George Costanza’s father, …
Read More →One person… how many votes? (Part 3)
April 18, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
In previous posts, I explained how the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) falls well short of the “one person, one vote” standard it claims to embody. The first shows how an election syst…
Read More →One person… how many votes? (Part 2)
April 11, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One of the main arguments made by advocates for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that it advances the idea of “one person, one vote.” As NPV, Inc.’s website claims: “It will appl…
Read More →One person… how many votes? (Part 1)
April 10, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One of the main arguments made by advocates for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that it embraces the idea of “one person, one vote.” NPV, Inc.’s website claims: “It will apply t…
Read More →Supreme Court ruling on Trump looks like bad news for National Popular Vote
March 8, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
I frequently tell people on both sides of the debate over the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) that it’s a mistake to predict how the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually rule on the comp…
Read More →Was National Popular Vote just a messaging bill?
February 29, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
A recent comment by a Democratic state legislator raises serious questions about the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). After talking through numerous and serious defects in the compact,…
Read More →In praise of (one part of) the National Popular Vote compact
November 16, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
I am not generally prone to pointing at parts of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) and saying, “They definitely knew what they were doing here” (unless I’m being sarcastic). But ther…
Read More →National Popular Vote lobbyists contradict themselves on using estimated vote totals
November 2, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
The following is adapted from an upcoming memo responding to a series of recent claims made by lobbyists for the National Popular Vote interstate compact. Lobbyists for the National Popular Vote inte…
Read More →Lies, damned lies, and… edits?
April 18, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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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