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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…
Read More →States consider preemptive measures against National Popular Vote
February 10, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One of the biggest defects of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV), as I’ve pointed out many times over the years, is that there is no official, accurate, uniform, or timely national vo…
Read More →2020 Voter Turnout Not Tied to “Battleground State” Status
January 27, 2021 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One talking point frequently used by advocates of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that it would increase voter turnout. The argument is that would-be voters in so-called “safe” …
Read More →The myth of 'wrong-winner' elections
November 20, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Key Points Presidents who won without a popular-vote plurality campaigned under the rules of the time, and it is misleading to call them “wrong winner” elections based on some imaginary preferred …
Read More →Reasonable but wrong: The Washington Post’s call for abolishing the Electoral College
November 17, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Normally I would come to bury, not praise, an editorial that calls for abolishing the Electoral College. But as I read Monday’s Washington Post editorial I couldn’t help but notice that, while genera…
Read More →National Popular Vote: Recount madness
November 17, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Key Points NPV could require, for the first time in American history, a nationwide recount. In a close election under NPV, it would be impossible to conduct a legitimate national recount.The cour…
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