DIRECT Popular Vote = SIMPLER Is BEST!

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Interpretation: Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3; National Popular Vote
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"Most democratic nations on earth elect their presidents by direct popular vote, but that was never the American system and still is not. We use the so-called “Electoral College” system to choose our president, which today means that 538 Electors drawn from the states and the District of Columbia speak for the rest of us. This is a complex and non-uniform state-based process, designed—like the U.S. Senate, which was originally composed of Members chosen by state legislatures, not the people—to filter public opinion through a “deliberative” intermediate institution."

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National Popular Vote - Common Cause
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"Activating the National Popular Vote compact would reshape our democracy for the better. Not only would it ensure that the person who actually got more votes win the presidency, it would force candidates to spend time engaging with voters in all 50 states, instead of in just a handful swing states."

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Popular Vote Explained In The Election Glossary
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National Popular Vote
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"The candidate elected to the U.S. presidency does not necessarily have to win a majority—or plurality—of the popular vote. Instead, the winner is the candidate who receives a majority of votes from the electoral college.
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While the winner of the electoral college is typically the winner of the popular vote, the winner lost the popular vote in 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016."

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Another State Joins Effort To Change Electoral College process: What Is The National Popular Vote Compact?
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"Efforts to end or alter the Electoral College have existed for years, but one state has brought the U.S. closer to a critical threshold that could change how votes are counted in 2028.
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Virginia recently became the 18th state to enact legislation that would instead assign its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. If just a handful of other states join the pact in the coming months, the Electoral College as we know it could become obsolete."

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The National Popular Vote, Explained
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"The Electoral College is one of the most unique — and undemocratic — elements of the U.S. government. It was originally included in the Constitution as a means to thwart direct democracy. Many of the framers of the Constitution were uncomfortable with giving power to the people, and in part devised the Electoral College as a democratic bypass. The Electoral College was also designed to protect the influence of slave states. Under a provision that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation in Congress, Southern slave states gained outsize influence in selecting the president. The system has endured despite the expansion of suffrage and the abolition of slavery."

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National Popular Vote Interstate COMPACT
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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, regardless of which ticket won more votes in their individual state/district. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes, nationwide, is elected President, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.
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Public opinion surveys suggest that a majority or plurality of Americans support a popular vote for president. Gallup polls dating back to 1944 showed consistent majorities of the public supporting a direct vote. A 2007 Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 72% favored replacing the Electoral College with a direct election, including 78% of Democrats, 60% of Republicans, and 73% of independent voters.

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Stanford Scholars: Popular Vote BETTER Than Electoral College
April 8, 2016
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"It is time to abolish the Electoral College in favor of a single national popular vote where all votes count equally, Stanford political experts say.
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The Electoral College is responsible for disenfranchising, in effect, huge swaths of American voters, said Doug McAdam, a professor of sociology who studies American politics. A single national popular or “constituency” vote would determine the president based on who won the most votes total across the country.
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Eliminating the Electoral College would empower voters, McAdam said, likely driving up voter registration and voting rates while creating a greater focus on issues (and not states) in presidential races."

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