Support LD 252 to Repeal Maine “National Popular Vote”
Legislative Alerts
Members of the Maine Legislature are seeking to enact LD 252, which would repeal the state's participation in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC).
Contact your state legislators
Please help protect the Electoral College and enact LD 252 by contacting your state legislators. Inform them of the Electoral College's importance and how it strengthens Maine's influence over presidential elections. Also inform them of how our country was designed as a federal republic and not as a democracy or unitary state.
Why it Matters
URGENT: The Maine House of Representatives passed LD 252 by a 76-71 vote (defeating a motion to stop the bill), and it has been sent to the state Senate for consideration. Contact your state senator, and urge him or her to support LD 252.
Members of the Maine Legislature are seeking to pass legislation that would repeal the state’s participation in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC).
Legislative Document 252 (LD 252) is co-sponsored by Representative Barbara Bagshaw (R-Windham) and four other representatives. If enacted, it would repeal a 2024 law that entered Maine into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. This would be a major step toward restoring adherence to the U.S. Constitution.
The NPVIC is an interstate agreement intended to subvert the Electoral College, which is established in Article II, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution. Rather than awarding electors based on the winner of each individual state’s popular vote, the NPVIC seeks to award the electors of the states that belong to the compact to whichever candidate wins the national popular vote.
Under the agreement, the NPVIC would only go into effect when the total number of member states’ electoral votes reaches 270 — the minimum needed for an individual to be elected president.
The NPVIC must be opposed as it is unconstitutional and an assault on the Electoral College and, more broadly, our federalist and republican form of government.
Implementation of the NPVIC subverts both the Electoral College and our federalist system of government. Contrary to what many leftists and self-described “conservatives” claim, the United States is not a democracy, nor did the Founding Fathers want it to be so.
Counter-majoritarian institutions like the Electoral College, in addition to the U.S. Senate and Bill of Rights, illustrate this fact. They exist both to protect limited government and individual rights from the “tyranny of the majority” and also to preserve the sovereignty of both small and large states.
Abolishing the Electoral College is part of the push to turn the United States into a democracy and a unitary state — and, by extension, purge it of its national sovereignty, identity, and constitutionally protected liberties. By causing presidential elections to be decided based on the national popular vote without any regard for individual state preferences, the NPVIC would effectively accomplish all of the purposes listed in the previous sentence without actually amending the Constitution. This is why it is such a dangerous idea at odds with the Constitution and the Founders’ vision, and underscores the need to support LD 252.
Urge your state senator to support LD 252 and restore adherence to the U.S. Constitution, including its provisions on the Electoral College.