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Nevada Assembly passes unprecedented NPV measure
April 21, 2023 by Trent England in Electoral College
This week, the Nevada Assembly passed AJR6, to place the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) in the Nevada Constitution. All Democrats present voted for the resolution; all Republicans vot…
Read More →Minnesota House hides, passes NPV compact
April 20, 2023 by Trent England in Electoral College
A change to presidential elections is the last thing you might expect to find in an omnibus spending bill. But that is where you’ll find the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) in Minnesot…
Read More →Lies, damned lies, and… edits?
April 18, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Apparently, folks at the National Popular Vote (NPV) organization are getting a bit desperate. What else could explain their lying to the Michigan legislature (and Nevada too) about my testimony on o…
Read More →National Popular Vote bill introduced in the Maine House of Representatives
April 11, 2023 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
The National Popular Vote campaign has targeted Maine and its four electoral votes for years. Now a new bill has been introduced in the state House of Representatives (LD1578). If passed, it would gi…
Read More →Constitutional amendment to adopt NPV introduced in the Nevada State Assembly
March 24, 2023 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
In 2019, former Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak vetoed a National Popular Vote bill. He rightly noted that the National Popular Vote compact would diminish Nevada’s role in presidential elections. Now …
Read More →Voting reform community sees major problem with National Popular Vote
January 23, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
A few days ago, I wrote that the organization pushing the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) continues to claim there is no conflict between the compact and Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). Bu…
Read More →National Popular Vote’s continuing problem with ranked-choice voting
January 17, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
For several years I’ve made the point that the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is incompatible with Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). That system, adopted by Alaska and Maine and proposed in…
Read More →The Electoral College is Fair
January 10, 2023 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
The Electoral College is sometimes derided as unfair, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The allocation of electoral votes is based on the census and is equal to a state’s number of represe…
Read More →2024 presidential race reminds us: states matter
November 15, 2022 by Trent England in Electoral College
The midterm elections are over, so now the question is: Who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees for President in 2024? Americans will sort that out over the next 18 months. Assuming Joe Bi…
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