Join the League of Women Voters of Berea and Madison County on Monday, March 23, for a primer on the electoral college and popular vote election processes and an important discussion on the merits of the national popular vote compact.
The member meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Richmond branch of the Madison County Public LIbrary at 507 W. Main St. All LWV members and the general public are encouraged to attend the presentation. Refreshments will be served.
Guest speaker is Dr. John Heyrman, a political science professor at Berea College who has studied the presidential election process.
Our chapter will use this discussion as a basis for our national consensus study on whether or not to support adopting an alternative process for presidential elections called the National Popular Vote Compact. The NPV compact is an initiative to elect the president by nationwide popular vote. It does not abolish the electoral college, but instead allows a state to award its electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the largest number of popular votes nationwide. For more information, see the LWV Web site under For Member/Projects and Programs.
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