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Committee backs resolution urging legal challenge to National Popular Vote compact
Summary
The House Finance and Taxation Committee recommended a due-pass on Senate Concurrent Resolution 4013, a measure introduced by Sen. Jonathan Sickler asking North Dakota to join an opposing interstate compact and prepare a legal challenge if the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact reaches the 270-elector threshold.
Senator Jonathan Sickler, R‑District 17 of Grand Forks, told the House Finance and Taxation Committee he introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 4013 to organize a group of states to challenge the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact if that compact ever reaches the 270‑electoral‑vote threshold and becomes effective.
The resolution would invite states not in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to join an opposing compact that would form a legal challenge only if the original compact became operative. Sickler told the committee the National Popular Vote compact currently represents 209 electoral votes and “that compact takes effect once they get to a majority,” meaning 270…
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