Your web browser is out of date. Update your browser for more security, speed and the best experience on this site.

Update your browser
Defending the Electoral College and the Constitution since 2009

what are you looking for?

Blog

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 →

Politics vs Math

February 27, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College

Sean Parnell and I have written extensively about potential conflicts between ranked-choice voting (RCV) and the NPV interstate compact. My latest, Popular Vote Compact Collides With Ranked-choice Vo…

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 →

Pew Poll says little about Electoral College, nothing about NPV

October 2, 2023 by Trent England in Electoral College

Opponents of the Electoral College are crowing about the latest Pew Research Poll, which claims to show that most Americans want a direct election for President. It’s important to note that the poll …

Read More →

NPV is gasoline on the immigration policy dumpster fire

June 15, 2023 by Trent England in Electoral College

What’s the wildest claim made when National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) lobbyists court Republicans? Probably that NPV is the antidote to illegal immigration’s effect on reapportionment. Th…

Read More →