What is the Electoral College?
Defending the Electoral College
The Constitution creates a multi-step democratic process to elect the president and vice president--the Electoral College. It unifies, moderates, and protects American politics, and is part of what makes the United States a federal republic.
Today, this system is threatened by a campaign to manipulate the Electoral College using an interstate compact. This “National Popular Vote” scheme threatens to create a constitutional crisis.
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Recent Articles
NPV’s Official Votes Problem, Part 1
Federal law does not guarantee that official vote totals would be available from every state by the time NPV compact states would need them.
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Why Virginia should think twice about the NPV compact
Will Governor Spanberger live up to her oath of office and defend both Constitutions by rejecting NPV?
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Virginia Legislature passes compact to manipulate presidential elections
This is a grave mistake that threatens to disenfranchise Virginia voters.
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Virginia Senate passes National Popular Vote bill
The Virginia Senate passed Senate Bill 322 (SB322) by a margin of 21-19 earlier this week.
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Does the League of Women Voters use an electoral college?
The League of Women Voters attacks the Electoral College as “convoluted,” but its own election process is more complex.
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Virginia Presidential Elector highlights NPV flaws
Jasper Hendricks, a prominent Democrat and former presidential elector, explains why the NPV compact is short sighted and dangerous.
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NPV would silence Virginia voters
NPV would mean that state voters no longer choose their own presidential electors. The voice of Virginia would be lost.
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National Popular Vote’s Small Plurality Problem
The danger of not having a runoff is that the winner might be someone with very modest support.
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Is the Electoral College partisan?
In recent years, some have argued that the Electoral College is slipping further out of reach for Democrats.
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Is the National Popular Vote movement losing momentum?
The National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) gained its first state back in 2007 when former Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley signed House Bill 148 into law.
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Books
Why do we have the Electoral College, and how does it protect our politics? What is ranked-choice voting, who’s behind it, and how does it make voting harder? The founder of Save Our States answers these questions in two brief books.
