The President should be candidate who gets the most votes nationwide ‌ ‌ ‌ For easy sharing - View as Webpage The Congressional District Proposal for Electing the President This is second of several emails discussing various alternative proposals for electing the President. Under the congressional-district method of awarding electoral votes, one electoral vote is awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in each of a state’s congressional districts. Maine and Nebraska currently use this system. ● The congressional-district method would not accurately reflect the nationwide popular vote. In 3 of the 6 presidential elections between 2000 and 2020, the winner of the most popular votes nationwide would not have become President if the congressional-district method had been used nationwide. ● The congressional-district method would not make every voter in every state politically relevant. It would worsen the current situation in which most voters in the United States are ignored in the general-election campaign for President. Under the congressional-district method, campaigns would be focused only on the small number of congressional districts that are closely divided in the presidential race. The major-party presidential candidates were within eight percentage points of each other in only 17% of the nation’s congressional districts (72 of 435) in 2020. In contrast, 31% of the U.S. population lived in the dozen closely divided battleground states where the candidates were within eight percentage points of each other in 2020. So, the congressional district method would be worse than the current system. ● The congressional-district method would not make every vote equal. There are six sources of inequality in the congressional-district method, and each is substantial. 3.81-to-1 inequality because of the two senatorial electoral votes that each state receives above and beyond the number warranted by its population, 1.72-to-1 inequality because of the roughness of the process of apportioning U.S. House seats among the states, 3.76-to-1 inequality because of voter differences in turnout between districts across the country, 1.67-to-1 inequality because of voter turnout differences at the state level, 1.39-to-1 inequality because of population changes during the decade after each census, 7.1-to-1 differences, from district to district, in the number of votes that enable a candidate to win an electoral vote within a state. ● In short, the congressional-district method of awarding electoral votes would make a bad system worse because it would not accurately reflect the nationwide popular vote, would not make every voter in every state politically relevant, and it would not make every vote equal. ● The congressional-district method would also increase the incentive to gerrymander districts. Read detailed memo LEARN MORE ABOUT NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE The National Popular Vote bill will make every vote equal in presidential elections, guarantee the presidency to the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide, and give candidates reason to campaign in all 50 states. It will ensure that every voter, in every state, will be politically relevant in every presidential election. It will produce a 50-state campaign for President. · 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 · 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 Answers to 131 myths · Watch video of the 270-by-2024 virtual conference, with 16 speakers, hosted by National Popular Vote, FairVote, Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, and Equal Citizens What You Can Do National Popular Vote | Box 1441, Los Altos, CA 94023 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!