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North Carolina Op-Ed Falsely Links Slavery and the Electoral College
July 15, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
An oft-repeated but false claim about the Electoral College is that it was created as part of a bargain to preserve slavery and bolster the political power of Southern states. A recent op-ed in the H…
Read More →Bad history on the Electoral College
June 10, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One line of attack made by opponents of the Electoral College is that it is inherently racist, both in original intent and in application over the years. There’s not much dispute that the three-fifth…
Read More →“Dangerous gaps” in NPV Compact
June 9, 2020 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
It’s no stretch to call Vikram David Amar, who is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, one of the “intellectual Godfathers” of the National Popu…
Read More →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) …
Read More →Certifiably Correct
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…
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