President should be candidate getting the most popular votes nationwide ‌ ‌ ‌ View as web page - For easy sharing Why Should Anyone Care Which Presidential Candidate Got Slightly More Votes in One or Two Particular States? For the second time in 20 years, the state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes has created avoidable uncertainty and chaos in a presidential election. It was obvious, on Election Night, that one candidate won the national popular vote by several million votes. So, what public purpose is served by even asking which presidential candidate got slightly more votes in one or two particular states? The Presidency should be decided by the voters -- not judges listening to hair-splitting legal arguments as to which candidate got slightly more votes in a particular state. In 2000, it took 31 days to learn that George W. Bush received 537 more popular votes in one particular state, while losing the national popular vote by 537,179 votes. If the nationwide popular vote had decided the Presidency, there would have been no lawyers, no courts, no uncertainty, no delay, and no controversy in the first place. In 2004, a shift of less than 60,000 votes in Ohio would have defeated President George W. Bush, despite his nationwide lead of 3 million votes. A shift of 9,246 votes from Carter in 1976, 12,487 votes from Truman in 1948, and 1,711 votes from Wilson in 1916 would have elected the second-place candidate. The current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes is often criticized because the candidate getting the most votes nationwide doesn’t become President; because every vote is not equal; and because candidates seek votes in only a dozen or so closely divided battleground states. However, an even more serious flaw may be its propensity to create unnecessary and avoidable crises. The Presidency is too important to allow our current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes to repeatedly manufacture avoidable chaos. The way to avoid this problem is for the winner to be the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the entire jurisdiction served by the office. That's the way we elect Governor, Senators, and almost all other public officials. NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE The National Popular Vote compact will guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact will take effect when enacted by states with a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). After the compact comes into effect, the presidential candidate supported by the most voters in all 50 states and DC will receive all the electoral votes of all the enacting states. Because those states have a majority of the electoral votes, the national popular vote winner will have a majority of the presidential electors in the Electoral College, and therefore become President. The National Popular Vote compact has already been enacted into law by 15 states and the District of Columbia (together possessing 196 electoral votes). In a referendum on Tuesday, Colorado voters demonstrated that the National Popular Vote law is popular by approving the law that had been enacted last year by the Colorado legislature and Governor. LEARN MORE One-page description of National Popular Vote Introductory video (8 minutes) Watch Jesse Wegman, author of Let the People Pick the President Watch Prof. George Edwards III, author of Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America Podcast with Jason Harrow, Executive Director of Equal Citizens and National Popular Vote Chair Dr. John Koza Legal Eagle (Devin James Stone) video explaining Electoral College Listen to Open Mind podcast in which Alexander Heffner interviews National Popular Vote Chair Dr. John Koza. Spotify Watch Michael Steele, former Chair of the Republican National Committee Watch Rick Tyler, author of Still Right, and Saul Anuzis present the conservative case for electing the President by National Popular Vote Watch debate at R Street between National Popular Vote's Eileen Reavey and Patrick Rosenstiel and NPV's opponents Tara Ross and Trent England Watch Dr. John Hudak, author of Presidential Pork: White House Influence over the Distribution of Federal Grants Answers to 131 myths National Popular Vote | Box 1441, Los Altos, CA 94023 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!