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EMAIL FROM ROBERT REICH:

Throughout our country’s history, the president of the United States has
been chosen not by popular vote, but by the undemocratic Electoral
College, and this has created a significant imbalance throughout the
judicial branch.

In fact, five of our 46 Presidents have come into office without winning
the popular votes nationwide. That’s right, five times in history, the
actual LOSER of the popular vote has still become the President of the
United States.

We can fix this so it never happens again.

Reform is long overdue and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is
a real reform that could work to elect the President of the United States
by majority vote.

[ [link removed] ]Support the campaign to ensure the candidate with the most votes
actually wins by adding your name now.

[ [link removed] ]Turn on images to see the video.

[ [link removed] ]WATCH AND SIGN ON

Should someone else's vote count more than yours?

For 80% of Americans, that’s exactly what’s happening. Their vote for
president isn’t nearly as valuable as the vote of someone in a so-called
“swing state.” Why?

Most Americans live in states that have become so predictably Democratic
or Republican that candidates take voters for granted. Presidential
elections now turn on the dwindling number of swing states that could go
either way, giving in turn, voters in these states huge leverage. The 2020
election came down to just over 40,000 votes spread across just three
swing states. 2016 came down to fewer than 80,000 votes also across three
states. Yet, in each of those elections, the national popular vote wasn’t
even close.

In fact, in the last five elections, the winners of the popular vote beat
their opponents by an average of 5 million votes. This means the current
state-by-state, electoral college system of electing presidents is
creating ever-closer contests in an ever-smaller number of closely divided
states for elections that aren’t actually close.

Making it worse, the current system presents a growing threat to the
peaceful transition of power. These razor-thin swing state margins can
invite post-election recounts, audits, and lawsuits -- even attempted
coups -- because a losing candidate might be able to actually overturn
40,000 votes with these techniques. Overturning 5 million votes would be
nearly impossible.

[ [link removed] ]It doesn’t have to be this way any more. We can pass the National
Popular Vote Interstate Compact and get started saving our democracy.
Please add your name now.

Here’s how the National Popular Vote Compact works: If enough states agree
to assign their Electoral College electors to the winner of the national
popular vote in presidential races, rather than the state’s own popular
vote -- we can guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the
most popular votes nationwide without needing to amend the Constitution.

The compact won’t take effect until enough states have joined to guarantee
Electoral College victory to the popular vote winner. So far fifteen
states and D.C. have already signed on, totaling 195 Electoral College
votes out of the 270 needed to secure a national popular vote victory.

With enough states on board, we can make sure America never again elects a
president who loses the national popular vote.

No longer would 80 percent of us be effectively disenfranchised from
presidential campaigns. And a handful of votes in swing states would no
longer determine the winner -- inviting recounts, audits, litigation, and
attempted coups that threaten our democracy.

[ [link removed] ]It’s time to make sure the candidate who gets the most votes wins.
Check out our video for all the details and then support the campaign to
elect the president by national popular vote by signing on.

It’s past time for the candidate who wins the most votes from the American
people to win.

Thank you for joining the campaign today.

-- Robert Reich, Inequality Media Civic Action

 

 

 


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