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The National Popular Vote bill would ensure a majority (at least 270) of electoral votes from the enacting states.

22,991 electoral votes have been cast since presidential elections became
competitive (in 1796), and only 17 have been cast for someone other than the candidate nominated by the elector's own political party. 1796 remains the only instance when the elector might have thought, at the time he voted, that his vote might

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the majority of Electoral College votes, and thus the presidency, to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the country

The current state-by-state winner-take-all system of
awarding electoral votes maximizes the power of anomalies and discrepancies. A very few people can change the national outcome by adding, changing, or suppressing a small number of votes in one closely divided battleground state. With the current system all of a

You saw no practical difference between Bush and Gore in 2000?

Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in every state surveyed recently.
In the 39 red, blue, and purple states surveyed, overall
support has been in the 67-83% range - in rural states, in small states, in Southern and

This would all be moot if the National Popular Vote would be in effect.

The electors are and will be dedicated party activists of the winning party who meet briefly in mid-December to cast their totally predictable rubberstamped votes in accordance with their pre-announced pledges.

There have been 22,991 electoral votes cast since presidential elections became competitive (in 1796), and only 17 have been cast for someone other than the one nominated by the elector's own political party. 1796 remains the only instance when the elector might have thought, at the time he voted, that his vote might

Of course NPV changes that.

States have the responsibility and power to make all of their

Under National Popular Vote, every voter, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election. Every
vote would matter in the state counts and national count.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the majority of Electoral College
votes, and thus the presidency, to the candidate who receives the most popular
votes in the country.