September 2025 Update

National Overview

As of August 2025,18 jurisdictions have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), bringing the total number of electoral votes pledged to 209. The most recent state to join was Maine in 2024. However, on May 20, 2025, the Maine House of Representatives voted to repeal the law. But the effort to withdraw from the NPVIC was rejected by the Maine Senate on June 16, 2025. Maine remains part of the Compact.

As of late 2024/early 2025, the following jurisdictions have passed legislation to join the NPVIC:

California (54 electoral votes), Colorado (10), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), DC (3), Hawaii (4), Illinois (19), Maine (4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), Minnesota (10), New Jersey (14), New Mexico (5), New York (28), Oregon (8), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), Washington (12).

To date, the Compact still needs an additional 61 electoral votes to reach the 270 threshold.  Several states where the bill passed in one legislative chamber hold a total of 74 electoral votes, indicating potential for progress toward the goal.

What’s Happening in Florida

Dear Colleagues,

Hard to believe, but it’s already post-Labor Day!

While the summer months have been relatively quiet, your Steering Committee has been working behind the scenes, planning for the 2025-2026 Florida Legislative Session, as well as increasing the breadth of our community educational program.

We are making plans to hold in-person meetings with our Florida State Senators and Representatives to encourage support for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.  We have also enlarged our Speakers Bureau so that we are able to offer in-person presentations to most districts in Florida.  Web-based presentations continue to be an option.

I’m pleased to share with you some of our specific goals for the months ahead:

• Develop relationships with newly elected State Legislators and encourage their support for NPV bills.
• Last session, 21 Florida State Representatives and 9 State Senators co-sponsored HB 33 and SB 208, respectively. We will meet with all of them and ask for their renewed support.
• Additionally, we will work to add 14 new bi-partisan co-sponsors.
• Have a NPV presence in Tallahassee during Legislative Committee Weeks and Legislative Sessions.
• Schedule a minimum of 50 NPV presentations to community groups across the state of Florida

Looking forward to cooler weather and moving ahead with our ambitious agenda.

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,
Kathleen

Local Presentations

On Monday, July 14th, members of the Westminster Winter Park\Baldwin Park Current Events Group learned about NPV from Steering Committee member Anne Coppenhaver. Fourteen people were in attendance.

Friday, August 22, 2025. Students at New College of Florida were treated to a presentation about NPV at a Novapalooza session where students learned about campus activities they can join. Presenter was Deb Mazzaferro of FNPV and League of Women Voters liaison to New College.

Deb Mazzaferro and New College Student President Alex Levy

Myth Busters

There are many misconceptions about the Electoral College and how the proposed National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, when enacted, will affect future elections. Each issue of the Newsletter will address one of these commonly held beliefs.

Myth: The Electoral College discourages voter fraud.  NPV will change how elections are run in each state.

Reality:  NPV has nothing to do with how federal elections are run by states. Voter fraud is not common in the current federal elections for president using the Electoral College, but neither is it common in the other 519,000 elections throughout the US that are based on who receives the most votes. The Electoral College will remain an important part of NPV. The Constitution, not the Electoral College, requires that federal elections be handled by the states. That won’t change under NPV.

(Source: Every Vote Equal)

Meet the FNPV Steering Committee: Anne Coppenhaver

Dr. Anne Coppenhaver is a retired educator whose current passion is trying to help Floridians understand the value of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Anne grew up in North Carolina and spent most of her career in Texas schools and universities. She believes the winner-take-all approach to our presidential elections is unfair, and that every citizen’s vote should count equally. Using her years of teaching skills, Anne is an active member of FNPV speakers’ bureau. “Until we have the same equality in Presidential elections as we do for mayor, governor, senator and representative, I am committed to pursuing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact passage in every state.”

Anne currently resides in Orlando.