On Thursday, March 18, at 8:30 am, the North Dakota House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee will hear SB 2271. This is the bill to force election officials and their contractors to withhold the general election presidential vote totals until after the electoral college has met in mid-December. The bill has already passed the State Senate. The purpose of the bill is to sabotage the National Popular Vote Plan, should it ever go into effect. The bill’s provisions only take effect once the NPV plan is in effect.
A rather uncreative way of thwarting the NPV. The weakness of the NPV is the continued use of plurality voting. NPV can be frustrated or complicated by using an alternative voting method, such as ranked choice, approval, or cumulative voting.
One more machination / reason to abolish the USA Senate and EC —
and even low pop States like ND — filled with ANTI-Democracy blowhard HACKS.