Friday, February 16, 2024
LWV-Downeast
February 16 — National Popular Vote: What do we need? And how can we get it?
We will talk about the history of the Electoral College and how it's working in the 21st century. What reforms are needed, and which are possible? What is the NPV compact, and how would it work? Is it right for Maine?
In case you missed it, here's a link to the archive.
Special guests:
- Mike Saxl, former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and Managing Principal of Maine Street Solutions, the leading proponent of the National Popular Vote in Maine
- Kate Shaw, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, co-host of the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny
For more information or to learn more about this subject:
- Our View: It’s time to pick the president by national popular vote | Portland Press Herald, Editorial, January, 2024
- No thanks to national popular vote | Bangor Daily News, Matt Gagnon op-ed, January, 2024
- Arguments against national popular vote compact fall short | Bangor Daily News, Amy Fried op-ed, January, 2024
- Yarmouth representative pitches National Popular Vote plan | Spectrum News, January, 2024
- National Popular Vote | National Conference of State Legislatures, December, 2023, shows state-by-state passage
- Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College | Pew Research, September, 2023
- “A Mystifying and Distorting Factor”: The Electoral College and American Democracy | Michigan Law Review, Katharine Shaw, 2022
- The National Popular Vote, Explained | Brennan Center for Justice, December, 2020
- The Electoral College is flawed -- so are the alternatives: Experts | ABC News, December, 2020
- Why We Need A National Popular Vote | Robert Reich
- Supreme Court’s “faithless electors” decision validates case for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact | Brookings, July, 2020
- More on "faithless electors" from the Law Library of Congress, and a list of state bind their electors from FairVote.
- Democracy Forum -- One Person, One Vote: The Electoral College and the National Popular Vote | Democracy Forum, June 19, 2020
- It's time to abolish the Electoral College | Brookings Institution>, 2020
- The Electoral College: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Democracy Forum, March, 2019
- Why the “National Popular Vote” scheme is unconstitutional | Independence Institute, February, 2019
- Popular vote better than Electoral College, Stanford scholars say | Stanford News, 2016
- Misguided “Objectivity” on N.P.V. | The New Yorker, June, 2011