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    Will a Trump felony conviction change the outcome of the election?

    With the current system, the winning 2024 candidate could need a national popular vote win of 4 to 7 percentage points to squeak out an Electoral College victory. We can end the outsized power and influence and vulnerability of a few battleground states. We have 519,682 elected officials in...
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    What Republicans want: No voting (Arizona)

    “I would rather see it, where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes, and somebody else gets 90 million votes, and you win. There’s a reason for doing this. Because it brings all the states into play.” Trump as President-elect, November 13, 2016, on “60 Minutes”...
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    What Republicans want: No voting (Arizona)

    No state or state's voters will be ignored. Every vote in every state will matter and count equally as 1 vote. The candidate with the most popular votes will win. Because of current state-by-state statewide winner-take-all laws for Electoral College votes, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in...
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    What Republicans want: No voting (Arizona)

    With current state laws, the 2024 campaign could be reduced to 5 counties or 4 remaining competitive battleground states, with as few as 43 electoral votes, where virtually all attention will be focused! College-Educated Voters In 3 States Could Swing the 2024 Election. Voters in the biggest...
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    What Republicans want: No voting (Arizona)

    There is NO EQUIVALENCE. The Arizona proposal is that Arizona citizenes will not vote in presidential elections. The Republican Arizona legislature will simply decide the candidate who will be awarded the state's electors. National Popular Vote will guarantee the candidate who wins the most...
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    If Republicans Are So Popular, Why Do They Have To Gerrymander And Suppress Voting?

    Proportional awarding of presidential electors by state would not be a fair “compromise” or solution. There are good reasons why no state even proposes, much less chooses, to award their electors proportionally. In 4 of the 8 elections between 1992 and 2020, the choice of President would have...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    Because of statewide winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution . . . 2 recent presidents entered office without winning the most national popular votes. A Democrat has won the national popular vote in 7 out of the last 8 elections. 5 of the last 6. We've...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    We would NOT vote on POLICY INITIATIVES. The U.S. Senate and U.S. House and Governors, state legislatures, and local government officials, etc. would continue to represent us. The 25 smallest states combined have had 57 Democratic electors and 58 Republican electors. And their Democratic and...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    In Gallup polls since they started asking in 1944 until before the 2016 election, only about 20% of the public supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    Democrats on the coasts do NOT outnumber Republicans in the country. Article II, Section 1 “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors….” The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    The 25 smallest states combined have had 57 Democratic electors and 58 Republican electors. CA has 54 electors George W. Bush LOST California in 2004 and still won the popular vote. In 2020, there were more Republican votes in CA than Republican votes in Texas. None helped Trump in any way...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    Federal law prohibits aliens from voting for President. 18 United States Code section 611 states: “It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    There have been hundreds of unsuccessful proposed amendments to modify or abolish the Electoral College - more than any other subject of Constitutional reform. States with 270+ Electoral College votes combined are agreeing to award them to the winner of the most popular votes from all 50 states...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    If the 2022 Election Were a Presidential Election, Democrats Would Have Lost the Popular Vote by about 3 million votes (2.8 percentage points), but Won the Electoral College 280-258. Because of the state-by-state winner-take-all electoral votes laws (i.e., awarding all of a state’s electoral...
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    Another big reason why the silly US electoral college needs to be abolished in favour of a US-wide popular vote

    38+ states and people have been merely spectators to presidential elections. They have no influence. That's more than 85 million voters, more than 240 million Americans, ignored. Their states’ votes were conceded months before by the minority parties in the states, taken for granted by the...
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