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School board elections shouldn’t be separate

June 5, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Elections

There doesn’t seem to be any question whether moving school board elections on-cycle with state and federal elections will dramatically increase turnout and provide greater voter input and accountabi…

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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.

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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.

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One person… how many votes? (Part 3)

April 18, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College

Advocates for NPV endlessly repeat their slogans about making “every vote count” and the importance of “one person, one vote,” without addressing how the compact would work in the real world.

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One person… how many votes? (Part 2)

April 11, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College

Does National Popular Vote deliver on the promise of "one person, one vote?" It turns out it doesn’t and can’t.

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One person… how many votes? (Part 1)

April 10, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College

Does National Popular Vote deliver on the promise of "one person, one vote?" It turns out it doesn’t and can’t.

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Supreme Court ruling on Trump looks like bad news for National Popular Vote

March 8, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College

The most obvious sign of trouble for the compact is that what is more or less the entire rationale for the constitutionality of NPV has now been shredded by the Supreme Court.

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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,…

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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).

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National Popular Vote lobbyists contradict themselves on using estimated vote totals

November 2, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College

Lobbyists for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) have a habit of labeling as a “myth” anything that is even slightly critical of or unhelpful to the compact.

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