Content Categorized with "National Popular Vote"
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Garrett J. Bradley and Pamela H. Wilmot: In the most important election, all votes should matter
- Posted: December 15, 2008
- Author(s): Garrett J. Bradley and Pamela H. Wilmot
- Publication: Enterprise News
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Massachusetts State Rep and Common Cause director make the case against the electoral college. -
Cruise keeps local elector from historic Obama vote
- Posted: December 15, 2008
- Author(s): Pete Nickeas and Kevin Lee
- Publication: Quad Cities Online
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
FairVote's Adam Fogel quoted on the National Popular Vote plan.
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It's Time to Junk the Electoral College
- Posted: December 14, 2008
- Publication: Wall Street Journal
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Commentary by Jonathan Soros in favor of the National Popular Vote Plan. -
FairVote's new report: 98% of attention to 15 states
- Posted: December 7, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
As the Electoral College prepares to convene on December 15, FairVote has released a powerful new report on where the major party presidential campaigns devoted time and resources.
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2008's Shrinking Battleground and Its Stark Impact on Campaign Activity
- Posted: December 4, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Both major party candidates in the 2008 presidential election made an ambitious promise upon effectively securing their party’s nominations —to wage nationwide campaigns and reach out to as many voters in as many states as possible. But the candidate's good intentions were undercut by the political reality created by the current Electoral College system and states’ use of the winner-take-all rule. Under that winner-take-all rule, candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize or pay attention to the concerns of states where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind.
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Ensure that every vote counts
- Posted: November 30, 2008
- Author(s): John R. Koza
- Publication: Times Union
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
National Popular Vote's John Koza comments on low voter turnout in safe states during the 2008 Presidential election, despite record-breaking turnout levels in key battleground states. -
Flunking the Electoral College
- Posted: November 19, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
New York Times editorial speaks out strongly against the Electoral College and favors the National Popular Vote movement. -
Shift of fewer than 400,000 votes could have swung the election in McCain?s favor
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Every Vote Should Count, From Sea to Shining Sea
- Posted: November 5, 2008
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Publication: New York Times
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
Letter to the Editor from FairVote's Rob Richie calling for a National Popular Vote for President to make sure that everyone's vote is counted equally. -
Historic Election Promises Major Reform
- Posted: November 5, 2008
- Categories: National Popular Vote, FairVote
2008 was an historic election in terms of the election of the first African American to be president and the largest number of voters at the polls in our history. But in this modern age, there is no excuse for privately-owned voting machines that breed mistrust, confusing ballot designs, polling places with long lines, voter registration laws that leave nearly a third of Americans off the rolls, an Electoral College system that undercuts equality and voting methods that suppress voter choice and stifle fair representation.