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Supreme Court ruling on Trump looks like bad news for National Popular Vote
March 8, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
The most obvious sign of trouble for the compact is that what is more or less the entire rationale for the constitutionality of NPV has now been shredded by the Supreme Court.
Read More →Was National Popular Vote just a messaging bill?
February 29, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
A recent comment by a Democratic state legislator raises serious questions about the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV). After talking through numerous and serious defects in the compact,…
Read More →Politics vs Math
February 27, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
When the NPV compact was drafted, there was no serious consideration of ranked-choice voting in presidential elections. So what happens decades later now that states have adopted RCV?
Read More →In praise of (one part of) the National Popular Vote compact
November 16, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
I am not generally prone to pointing at parts of the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) and saying, “They definitely knew what they were doing here” (unless I’m being sarcastic).
Read More →National Popular Vote lobbyists contradict themselves on using estimated vote totals
November 2, 2023 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
Lobbyists for the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) have a habit of labeling as a “myth” anything that is even slightly critical of or unhelpful to the compact.
Read More →Pew Poll says little about Electoral College, nothing about NPV
October 2, 2023 by Trent England in Electoral College
Opponents of the Electoral College are crowing about the latest Pew Research Poll, which claims to show that most Americans want a direct election for President. It’s important to note that the poll …
Read More →NPV is gasoline on the immigration policy dumpster fire
June 15, 2023 by Trent England in Electoral College
What’s the wildest claim made when National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) lobbyists court Republicans? Probably that NPV is the antidote to illegal immigration’s effect on reapportionment. Th…
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