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This year, Maine made history when its House of Representatives voted to repeal the National Popular Vote interstate compact. In fact, the House voted twice to send the repeal to the Senate. But desp…

A ballot petition was recently filed in Missouri to adopt the National Popular Vote (NPV) interstate compact. Petition 2026-068 intended to force Missouri to award its 10 electoral votes to the natio…

A bipartisan majority in the Maine House of Representatives passed LD 252 to repeal the state’s participation in the National Popular Vote interstate compact, just a year after the state had signed o…

The Maine House of Representatives will vote soon on whether to withdraw from the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). The bill is LD 252. The state joined NPV last year, but that bill onl…

A multi-year effort to add Nevada to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) has failed due to bipartisan opposition. Friday, April 11, was the deadline for bills to advance out of committ…

A recent post by Trent England explained some of the problems with the approach advocated by lobbyists for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) when it comes to how disputes or disagree…

One of the key weaknesses of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) is that member states are supposed to obtain the vote totals of every state that holds a “statewide popular election,” …

The Rhode Island House of Representatives' State Government and Elections Committee held a hearing on House Bill 5519, a bill to remove the state from the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NP…

My colleague Trent England wrote an excellent post on a unique problem of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV): its reliance on the cooperation of non-member states – cooperation that m…