The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the
candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in
presidential elections. No more distorting and divisive red and blue state maps. There would no longer be a handful of ‘battleground’ states where voters
and policies are more important than those of the voters in more than 3/4ths of
the states that now are just ‘spectators’ and ignored.

When the bill is enacted by states possessing a majority of the
electoral votes– enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538), all
the electoral votes from the enacting states would be awarded to the
presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and
DC.

The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in
the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for President.
Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the
President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial
property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have
come about by state legislative action.

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has 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 (with
about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support for a national popular vote
is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as
every demographic group in virtually every state surveyed in recent polls in
closely divided Battleground states: CO – 68%, FL – 78%, IA 75%, MI – 73%, MO –
70%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM– 76%, NC – 74%, OH – 70%, PA – 78%, VA – 74%, and
WI – 71%; in Small states (3 to 5 electoral votes): AK – 70%, DC – 76%, DE –
75%, ID – 77%, ME – 77%, MT – 72%, NE 74%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM – 76%, OK –
81%, RI – 74%, SD – 71%, UT – 70%, VT – 75%, WV – 81%, and WY – 69%; in
Southern and Border states: AR – 80%,, KY- 80%, MS – 77%, MO – 70%, NC – 74%,
OK – 81%, SC – 71%, TN – 83%, VA – 74%, and WV – 81%; and in other states
polled: CA – 70%, CT – 74%, MA – 73%, MN – 75%, NY – 79%, OR – 76%, and WA –
77%. Americans believe that the candidate who receives the most votes should
win.

The bill has passed 31 state legislative chambers in 21 small,
medium-small, medium, and large states. The bill has been enacted by 9
jurisdictions possessing 132 electoral votes – 49% of the 270 necessary to
bring the law into effect.

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