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Even some critics of the Electoral College have acknowledged a major flaw with NPV: states may not receive official vote totals in time to determine a national winner.

How do you ensure that official, certified vote totals are available from every state to use when tabulating the national vote count, in particular from non-member states?

NPV’s lobbyists have had a few responses which sound vaguely plausible but don’t hold up to scrutiny.

Federal law does not guarantee that official vote totals would be available from every state by the time NPV compact states would need them.

The danger of not having a runoff is that the winner might be someone with very modest support.

In a recent blog post, I noted that lobbyists for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) routinely but inaccurately claim that disaster declarations by the president are distorted by the …

It’s no secret that the campaign to nullify the Electoral College with the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) has lost steam.

It isn’t clear that courts would be able to untangle all of problems NPV would create.

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,” …

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…