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NPV compact losing electoral votes?
May 9, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
Yes, the NPV compact has lost electoral votes twice despite no state (yet) repealing it. How is that possible? The answer reveals one more way the compact is unstable—and poorly drafted. Every ten ye…
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 →Can states defend the nation?
April 30, 2024 by Trent England in Foreign Threats
National defense is the ultimate national issue. Yet just as the national government is obliged to defend the states (see Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution), the states also play key roles i…
Read More →“State Armor” helping states stand up to the Chinese Communist Party
April 30, 2024 by Trent England in Foreign Threats
A group that launched earlier this year is already active in the states, crafting policies that will protect Americans from the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign threats. Michael Lucci create…
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 →Maine joins the National Popular Vote interstate compact without Governor's signature
April 16, 2024 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
Governor Janet Mills allowed National Popular Vote bill LD 1578 to take affect yesterday, committing Maine's four electoral votes to the compact. Save Our States Executive Director Trent England had …
Read More →John Koza puts NPV politics ahead of math
April 12, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
My last post, responding to comments by John Koza, addresses the most obvious conflict between ranked-choice voting (RCV) and the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). The issue is that RCV…
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 →Does John Koza understand his own plan?
April 8, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
Sean Parnell and I have written many times about the conflicts between ranked-choice voting (RCV) and John Koza’s National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). Last week, I raised these questions w…
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