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Would first- or final-round results, or perhaps some intermediate round, be used for national vote tabulation under National Popular Vote? And who decides?

The fact that Alaska could easily erase 140,000 votes for the Democratic candidate by a simple statutory tweak to its RCV system shows that this isn’t the case and that NPV is highly vulnerable to no…

Whether NPV supporters like it or not, the national popular vote interstate compact is partisan. And it would create a powerful incentive for other partisan states to act in their perceived defense.

The National Popular Vote compact assumes courts could force non-member states to provide complete vote totals by the federal deadline, but in reality, slow or incomplete counts in those states could…

Supporters of National Popular Vote often overlook a major flaw: the compact relies on states that never joined it. If NPV ever took effect, that assumption could trigger a national election crisis.

A key defect of NPV is that it would be impossible to conduct a national recount. The fact that NPV lobbyists can’t provide accurate and honest responses to this issue raises even more red flags.

The National Popular Vote interstate compact would create new—and completely legal—ways of manipulating the presidential election process. That’s not something anybody wants.

A new article at Vox shows just how far supporters of the National Popular Vote interstate compact will go to avoid answering concerns about their plan’s technical defects.

NPV advocates claim estimated vote totals would be nearly exact, but real-world application shows their method could produce errors hundreds or thousands of votes larger—undermining confidence in the…

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.