Hi,

In two of the last six presidential elections, the candidate who got the
most votes nationwide lost the election because of the archaic,
undemocratic Electoral College.

Worse yet, with polls now showing President Biden in a dead heat against
nearly every one of the major Republican candidates, there’s simply too
much risk that the loser of the popular vote will once again win the White
House — and this time, our democracy might not survive.^1

The good news is that we have a solution.

The National Popular Vote compact is a bottom up, state-by-state strategy
whereby states representing 270 electoral votes pass laws requiring that
their electoral votes go to the winner of the national popular vote.^2
Already, states comprising 205 electoral votes have gotten on board, and
we need to push hard right now to get the final few states we need before
2024.

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In 2000, George W. Bush won the White House despite losing the popular
vote by 543,000 votes. It happened again in 2016, when Donald Trump lost
the popular vote for president by nearly 3 million votes.

As a result, we have a Supreme Court wildly out of step with the American
people, and more and more Americans are losing faith in the basic
institutions of democracy.

Abolishing the Electoral College would require a constitutional amendment,
and that’s an incredibly steep hill to climb. But passing the National
Popular Vote compact is comparatively easy. It’s simply a legal agreement
by the states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the
nationwide popular vote. For the National Popular Vote compact to go into
effect, we only need enough states to reach the magic number of 270
electoral votes.

Already 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed the compact
into law. That’s 205 electoral votes.^3 If just a few more states join the
compact, it will ensure no president can be elected while losing the
popular vote.

Demand Progress Action has been advocating for the National Popular Vote
compact for years, and now that it’s close to reality, we need to
massively turn up the heat.

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate to Demand Progress Action to support our work to enact
the National Popular Vote, and fight for other key democratic reforms?

With gratitude for all that you do,

Tihi and the team at Demand Progress Action

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Sources:
1. RealClearPolitics, "2024 Latest Polls," accessed [ [link removed] ]September 8, 2023.
2. National Popular Vote, "Status of National Popular Vote Bill in Each
State," accessed [ [link removed] ]September 8, 2023.
3. National Popular Vote, "Status of National Popular Vote Bill in Each
State," accessed [ [link removed] ]September 8, 2023.
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