The National Popular Vote Compact would unfairly increase the electoral power of those living in the most populous states and urban areas.

Since 2007, 14 states and the District of Columbia have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which member states pledge to give all their Electoral College votes to the ...

The National Popular Vote Compact has been kicking around a long time, and I have already written five columns on this issue. But it’s in the news again and being contemplated with new vigor.

Remember, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact awards all of a state’s electors to the party of the candidate who wins the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The National Popular Vote does not “circumvent” or “abandon” the Electoral College but engages it in the context of an interstate compact to ensure that every single vote is counted.The ...

The National Popular Vote compact, however, clearly falls in the “political” category of compacts that, even under the Supreme Court’s narrow reading of the Compact Clause, ...

By a 52-to-48 margin, Coloradans voted to stay in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The state joined the compact last year, but a repeal effort landed the issue on the 2020 ballot.

If the National Popular Vote Compact had been in place, every New York electoral vote would have gone to President Bush and made him the President of the United States instead of Mr. Kerry.

As a result, in a close election, this compact could create unresolvable disputes over who won the “national popular vote.” Andy Craig at the Cato Institute makes a detailed case that the ...

A National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has been enacted in some states but not all. Tim Walz called for the end of the Electoral College Tuesday. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

The compact says each state promises to give its Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote for president no matter who won in each state.

If the compact had been in place for the 2024 election, Bagshaw noted, Maine would have had to cast all four of its Electoral College votes for Donald Trump because he won the national popular vote.