Thread: The Electoral College needs fixing. NOT!!!!!!!

Look what I got in the email just now The Electoral College does not need fixing!!!!!!!


The Electoral College needs fixing.

Your action NOW can make the difference because the Nevada Legislature will soon be considering legislation to reform the Electoral College.

Under the National Popular Vote bill, the presidential candidate who gets the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC will become President.

Please take a moment to e-mail your Nevada Legislators to tell them to support the National Popular Vote bill.

The National Popular Vote bill would mean that the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC) would become President. The current system has elected a second-place candidate in 4 of 56 presidential elections.

The states have the constitutional authority to change the method of awarding electoral votes and thereby establish a national popular vote for President. The National Popular Vote bill has already been enacted into law by New Jersey, Maryland, Vermont, Illinois, Washington state, California, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii. The bill has also been approved by at least one legislative house in an additional 12 states. The Nevada Assembly passed the bill in 2009.

Please take a moment to e-mail your Nevada Legislators to tell them to support the National Popular Vote bill.

The National Popular Vote bill is endorsed by the League of Women Voters, Common Cause, FairVote, the Brennan Center for Justice, NAACP, National Black Caucus of State Legislators, ACLU, the National Latino Congreso, Asian American Action Fund, DEMOS, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Public Citizen, and U.S. PIRG.

The bill has been endorsed by newspapers such as the Hartford Courant, New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Sacramento Bee, and many more.

As the Sarasota Florida Herald Tribune said: "The most compelling and practical alternative is promoted by a bipartisan group called National Popular Vote. The NPV proposal calls for legislatures to pass bills committing their state's electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide; the bill would take effect only when enacted by states that together have enough electoral votes to elect a president."

As the election season gets underway, please urge your lawmakers to support the National Popular Vote.

Learn more at National Popular Vote -- Electoral college reform by direct election of the President.

Thank you.

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Unsubscribe, I did lickity split!!! Look at the whos who list of supporters of this bill...tell you anything???? the bill would take effect only when enacted by states that together have enough electoral votes to elect a president." Everyone needs to be aware this is going around and what they are trying to pull on us.