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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    In 2008, voter turnout in the then 15 battleground states averaged seven points higher than in the 35 non-battleground states. In 2012, voter turnout was 11% higher in the then 9 battleground states than in the remainder of the country. In the 2012 presidential election, 1.3 million votes...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    Unable to agree on any particular method for selecting presidential electors, the Founding Fathers left the choice of method exclusively to the states in Article II, Section 1: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors….” The U.S...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    Now minority party voters in each state have their votes counted only for the presidential candidate they did not vote for. Now they don't matter to their candidate. In 2012, 56,256,178 (44%) of the 128,954,498 voters had their vote diverted by the winner-take-all rule to a candidate they...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    Of Course, the National Popular Vote bill is fair. It ensures that every voter is equal, every voter will matter, in every state, in every presidential election, and the candidate with the most votes wins, as in virtually every other election in the country. Every voter, everywhere, would be...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    The presidential election system, using the 48 state winner-take-all method or district winner method of awarding electoral votes used by 2 states, that we have today was not designed, anticipated, or favored by the Founding Fathers. It is the product of decades of change precipitated by the...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    Because of the state-by-state winner-take-all electoral votes laws (i.e., awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in each state) in 48 states, a candidate can win the Presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide. This has...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    The EC is without question NOT the only thing that has kept this country from going down the path of radicalism. Extremist candidacies as Strom Thurmond and George Wallace won a substantial number of electoral votes in numerous states. Support for a national popular vote is strong in every...
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    Down with Electoral College, Up with People

    With the current state-by-state winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), it could only take winning a bare plurality of popular votes in only the 11 most populous states, containing 56% of the population of the...
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