On March 14, the Delaware House passed SB 22 by 24-17. This is the National Popular Vote Plan bill. It is now through the legislature, and Governor John Carney has already said he will sign it.

Some critics of the plan say the existing system is designed to help small states. This is not factually or historically true. But, aside from that, the plan has now passed the legislature of 6 jurisdictions that have only three or four electoral votes, out of 13 jurisdictions that have three or four electoral votes. It has passed in Delaware, D.C., Hawaii, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont; it has not passed in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

On March 14, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed SB 5273. It moves the presidential primary from May to March. It also says voters who choose a presidential primary ballot must sign in, so that the party whose ballot is chosen will obtain a list of the voters who chose its ballot.

On March 14, the Utah legislature passed SB 123. It governs how parties nominate in special U.S. House elections. The bill says party meetings would choose the two highest vote-getters, and then a special primary would be held between those two candidates. There would be no ability for anyone to get the party nomination if that individual had not done well at a party meeting.

The existing code is vague about how parties nominate in special U.S. House elections.

The bill also says that if there is a U.S. Senate vacancy, the legislature, not the Governor, would appoint the new Senator. This appears to violate the 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is conceivable that the Governor will veto this bill.