Lynn Gerlach, Member For more than 15 years the League of Women Voters has actively supported passage of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). Both the LWVWI NPV Task Force and our local LWVGGB NPV committee will get back to work this fall following a summer hiatus. Our goal is to get the state of Wisconsin to sign onto this interstate compact, adding our ten electoral votes to the national effort to make the electoral college acknowledge the will of the natio

Jill Fermanich, NPVIC Committee Chair – A 2024 Pew Research Center poll found that 63% of Americans want the nationwide popular vote - not the electoral college - to decide who becomes president. We are on our way to making that a reality. On April 13, 2026, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed the National Popular Vote bill into law, making Virginia the nineteenth jurisdiction to enact the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law. The National Popular Vo

The growing and active LWVGGB National Popular Vote Committee has created a brochure to help educate the public about the limitations of the Electoral College and the many ways in which National Popular Vote is a better and more democratic method for electing our President and Vice President.

Submitted by Jill Fermanich, NPVIC Chairperson National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC): What is it? The National Popular Vote bill will guarantee the presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in the entire nation. It is an interstate compact, which is an agreement between two or more states, and it works like this: Each state that votes to join the compact agrees to pass state laws that will instruct that state’s electors to vote for the presidentia