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Dear John,
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Electoral College is broken.
Since 1992, every single winner of the national popular vote for U.S. President has been a Democrat. But twice in the last 8 elections, the Electoral College handed the U.S. Presidency to the loser of the popular vote. Both times the results were disastrous.
How do we fix this problem? One practical way is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Under this significant reform, if enough states -- with a total electoral vote count adding up to 270 or more -- commit their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, then this candidate will become President.
Already 16 states, with a total of 234 electoral votes, have signed on. If Michigan, with its 16 electoral votes, joins the Compact, it will be just 50 votes away from taking effect!
Lawmakers in Michigan have just a few weeks in session left to pass this important reform. Sign the petition to tell the Michigan legislature to pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact today. Let them know the nation is watching!
With its built-in bias giving 1 electoral vote to every 193,000 voters in Wyoming, and the same 1 vote to over 700,000 voters in California, the archaic Electoral College is on its face unfair and undemocratic. The modern-day costs of letting the Electoral College decide who will be the U.S. President every election cycle have become simply unacceptable.
After losing the national popular vote in 2000, George W. Bush invaded Iraq, resulting in the deaths of over 4000 American soldiers and approximately 300,000 Iraqi citizens, at a cost to the U.S. of as much as $3 trillion.
After losing the national popular vote in 2016, Donald J. Trump began a presidency that ended after four years in an attack on the Capitol by an armed mob seeking to keep the loser in office even longer.
Trump left behind a Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority. If all the popular vote winners had become President, the Supreme Court would have a 7-2 liberal majority with a liberal Chief Justice, and Roe v. Wade would certainly still stand.
Under the Electoral College, the United States is a majority progressive nation with political institutions dominated by the corruption of the extremist far right. This situation has become intolerable and it must be repaired. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will get it done.
Sign the petition today to tell the Michigan legislature: It’s time to send the winner of the national popular vote to the White House!
Thank you for signing onto this incredibly important reform.
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
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