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The National Popular Vote interstate compact is not serious public policy. But that doesn’t mean it’s not serious.

I recently re-listened to a March 2023 hearing on the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) in Michigan. As NPV supporters recited their talking points, I heard something that I’ve probably …

NPV is extremely vulnerable when it comes to actually adding up votes, in particular when it comes to non-member states not following the timeline required by a compact they are not a party to.

The argument that rural America will get plenty of attention if NPV is in effect is simply nonsense.

Lobbyists for the National Popular Vote interstate compact have long targeted Arizona in hopes of adding its eleven electoral votes to their unconstitutional compact scheme.

Under NPV, we’d likely have another three or four weeks of waiting, with all the chaos and confusion that would bring. That doesn’t seem healthy for our democracy.

Tomorrow, Americans will vote for their state’s presidential electors. This is the first step in the two-part democratic election process set forth in the Constitution for choosing the president and …

This is the fifth and final post in our series about some of the benefits of the Electoral College.

Perhaps the greatest benefit of our state-by-state election process is the powerful incentive it creates against regionalism. This is always true, but easiest to see in the late 19th century.