LANSING (March 7, 2023) – Macomb County’s Clerk Kim Meltzer of Clinton Charter Township endorsed passage of the bipartisan National Popular Vote Interstate Compact as the House Elections Committee held a hearing on the bill.LANSING (March 7, 2023) – Macomb County’s Clerk Kim Meltzer of Clinton Charter Township endorsed passage of the bipartisan National Popular Vote Interstate Compact as the House Elections Committee held a hearing on the bill.
Read MoreThe National Popular Vote Interstate Compact was endorsed Wednesday by a group of prominent Michigan Republican leaders, including two former speakers of the House, four former Senate majority leaders and two former state Republican chairmen.
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Read MoreThe current state-based, winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes makes the voters in a handful of battleground states the only relevant voters in presidential elections.
In the current system, presidential candidates have no incentive to campaign in states in which they are either comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind. This gives all of the electoral power in every election to just a handful of tightly contested battleground states.
Read MoreThe National Popular Vote is a state-based approach that fully preserves the Electoral College, state control of elections, and the power of the states to control how the president is elected.
National Popular Vote would be enacted through an agreement among states, known as an interstate compact. These are quite common (the average state is a member of about 25) and are effectively contracts between states.
Read MoreThe attention that the current state-based, winner-take-all method affords to battleground states is very clear during election years.
For example, in 2012, 29% of campaign events held after the Democratic and Republican conventions were in Ohio. Meanwhile, there were zero campaign events in 39 states.
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