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No, the Electoral College wasn't created to protect slavery
Posted by Sean Parnell on Aug 16, 2021
Key PointsThe Electoral College replaced the already-approved plan to have Congress appoint the president because it ensured the executive would be independent from the legislature, not because of sl…
Read More →National Popular Vote’s lavish junkets for state legislators
Posted by Sean Parnell on Aug 05, 2021
When News Channel 5 in Nashville, Tennessee hosted a debate between Save Our State’s Trent England and NPV’s Ray Haynes, there were few surprises for people involved on either side of this issue. One…
Read More →I’d bet Kamala Harris kissed a few California babies
Posted by Sean Parnell on Jun 30, 2021
I ran across an old clip of John Koza, who created and runs the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) campaign. In it, he complains to a California audience about what he views as the unfair…
Read More →The Electoral College represents people, National Popular Vote doesn’t
Posted by Sean Parnell on Jun 02, 2021
Common refrains among advocates for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) are that “every vote should be equal” and “every voter in every state should be politically relevant.” These are…
Read More →Tacoma: The 101st City
Posted by Sean Parnell in Threats on May 13, 2021
One concern often expressed about the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that voters from large metropolitan areas would dominate a direct presidential election while rural Americans w…
Read More →Oops, New York Did It Again
Posted by Sean Parnell on Apr 26, 2021
A while back I wrote about New York’s unfortunate habit of failing to provide accurate vote counts for presidential electors, and how they managed to once again miss the mark in 2020. Here’s a brief …
Read More →Missed it by that much, part II
Posted by Sean Parnell on Apr 06, 2021
In the first post of this two-part series, I explained how an NPV lobbyist admitted that their plan would allow state chief election officers (CEOs) to make up vote totals in the event that a state w…
Read More →Constitutional Amendment Introduced to Abolish Electoral College
Posted by Sean Parnell on Feb 22, 2021
Congress has considered more constitutional amendments to change or abolish the Electoral College than on any other subject. The latest, House Joint Resolution 14, was introduced in early 2021. Like…
Read More →New York Submits Inaccurate Presidential Vote Count (Again)
Posted by Sean Parnell on Feb 22, 2021
One of the many defects in the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that it requires member states to accept at face value the vote totals submitted by every other state, even if those v…
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.