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National Popular Vote’s lavish junkets for state legislators
August 5, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
June 30, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
June 2, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
May 13, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
April 26, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
April 6, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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
February 22, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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)
February 22, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
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…
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