Bob Hall

The Massachusetts legislature passed a bill to join a compact of other states that pledge to cast their Electoral College votes for the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote. Five others states are currently in the National Popular Vote compact. Once it has enough states to control a majority of the Electoral College [...]

The New Organizing Institute has an eight-page report summarizing findings of other studies about “Lost Voters, Lost Votes.” For example, 1.9 million voters did not cast a ballot in the 2008 election for “one simple and solvable reason: they did not know where to go.” Voting in the wrong precinct also blocked an additional 90,000 [...]