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The Virginia Senate passed Senate Bill 322 (SB322) by a margin of 21-19 earlier this week. If enacted, it would commit the state’s 13 electoral votes to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV), bringing the total number of electoral votes committed to 222. 

This isn’t the first attempt to give Virginia’s electoral votes away to the winner of the popular vote. National Popular Vote lobbyists and left-wing special interest groups like the League of Women Voters have been pushing the legislature to pass National Popular Vote for years. Now with former Governor Glenn Youngkin out of the picture and Democrats in control of both chambers of the legislature and the governorship, they see an opportunity to ram the compact through before the session ends.

National Popular Vote is just one of the many terrible bills introduced so far this session. Bills like HB111 would ban future attempts to clean up voter rolls, while HB1245 would provide taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries. A bill that would allow municipalities to use ranked-choice voting also passed the Senate by the same margin.

But SB322 is especially insidious. Adding Virginia to the NPV would bring an unconstitutional, unworkable, and un-American compact one step closer to coming to fruition. The House should kill this bill and protect the voice of voters. And Virginians must continue to make their opinions known to their elected officials.