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Metropolitan Math is No Myth
April 29, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
In an opinion piece appearing last year at the site Market Watch, George C. Edwards III (a professor of political science at Texas A&M and author of Why the Electoral College is Bad for America) …
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April 21, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
In a few recent posts I’ve raised the point that if enacted, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) is going to face some serious problems being executed, in large part because of the lac…
Read More →Safe Harbors and Sandy
April 15, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
In an earlier post I noted that Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, a supporter of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) and the chief elections officer in her state who would…
Read More →How Would We Count the Votes?
April 8, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
For some years I have been pointing out what I term the “mechanical” flaws of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV), explaining that if it were to go into effect, the poorly-crafted sche…
Read More →About that “plenary” and “exclusive” power…
March 30, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One of the key questions about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) is: Is it constitutional? For advocates of NPV, there is no question – the Constitution vests “exclusive” and “plenar…
Read More →Tyranny of the Majority and Winner-Take-All
November 21, 2019 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One of the many arguments for retaining the Electoral College and its state-by-state process for electing the president is that it provides a check on raw majoritarian power, sometimes referred to as…
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