The committee on Election Law in the New Hampshire House of Representatives met yesterday afternoon to consider the National Popular Vote interstate compact. The meeting wasn’t to decide the bill’s f…

Even a simple game must have a set of rules. And when the competition is most fierce, that’s when the rules matter the most.Our Constitution provides the set of rules for governing our country. It af…

Why does John Hickenlooper, locked in a tight race for U.S. Senate in Colorado, snub people who live in small towns and rural areas? Because he doesn’t need their votes. If he can get enough votes fr…

Does voting for a losing candidate mean the vote is “wasted,” or the voter was “disenfranchised”? Unless an election comes down to a single vote (it happens), no individual vote is decisive. But ever…

Resistance to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) today comes from an unexpected corner: Washington Post columnist Charles Lane. He correctly points out that “there is no such thing as…

Key PointsElection fraud continues to be a serious problem, and the National Popular Vote interstate compact would make it worse.In the current system, it is difficult to commit fraud in competitive …

The law determines when an election is over—not the media. Yet reporters often predict who is going to win, sometimes even before votes are counted based on lopsided polling. Other times they predict…

Key PointsThe interests of small-town and rural Americans have to be taken into account when trying to win statewide elections under the Electoral College.There are 223 million Americans in just thos…

Key Points Presidents who won without a popular-vote plurality campaigned under the rules of the time, and it is misleading to call them “wrong winner” elections based on some imaginary preferred …

“How dare you lie about our position!” As I exited a committee hearing into the middle of the Delaware State Capitol, I was confronted by two elderly women—one of them yelling in my face. They were r…