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Truth Sandwiches: Away with the Electoral College [1]

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Date: 2023-07-28

Voting is good for all, or it is good for none. Compare the Reddest states where voting is suppressed, with the Bluest states where One Human One Vote is supported, on the rights of women and children, education, jobs, the economy, racism, bigotry, nativism, โ€œChristianโ€ Nationalism, and outright Fascism.

x We wouldn't have a Constitution w/o the Bill of Rights, but equally we wouldn't have it w/o the intentional gerrymanders of the Senate & the Electoral College to protect interests of small states. It turned into a major support for slavery, & continues to support racism today. https://t.co/I3rka8Nrif pic.twitter.com/9qZ3zU33GL โ€” Mokurai Delusion Fighter ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@Mokurai) July 28, 2023

We have a remedy, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, but it has been a hard slog trying to put it into effect. Still, we are well ahead of the usual schedule. The NPVIC was introduced in 2007, only 16 years ago, and it has reached 76% of the goal of covering states with 270 electoral votes, enough to decide all future Presidential elections.

Good News Thursday: The Fifty-Year Rule in Politics

Wilberforce led the campaign against slavery in the British Empire that took just about 50 years

x I am proud of the promise of the United States of America.



I can do without the Disunited States of Malarkey.



Organize! GOTV! Vote!



We don't have to take it any more.#Indivisible #TruthBrigade Rebuilding Democracy: One Fact at a Time https://t.co/8fa0KBua7T pic.twitter.com/L1LWQxRltV โ€” Mokurai Delusion Fighter ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@Mokurai) June 10, 2023

List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin

Both Donald Trump and George W. Bush were elected with EC majorities and popular vote minorities. There has been much speculation about an Al Gore Presidency, with effective action on both Global Warming and international terrorism, and without wars in Afghanistan and Iraq handing both countries over to extremists.

Third state this year advances effort to elect president by popular vote

This bill's advancement in Michigan comes just weeks after Democratic-led drives in Minnesota, which enacted a law adding its 10 electoral votes to the compact, and in Nevada, which passed the first part of a multi-year effort that would contribute the state's six electoral votes as well.

Minnesota Democrats breathe new life into movement to elect the president by popular vote

State EVs Prospects Alaska 3 No Arizona 11 Flip Lege first Florida 30 No Maine 4 Passed once, but not repassed as required Michigan 15 Done Minnesota 10 Done Mississippi 6 No Missouri 10 No Nevada 6 Under way North Carolina 16 Get rid of gerrymander first South Carolina 9 No Texas 40 Make TX a voting state first Wisconsin 10

Republican-led chambers have adopted the measure in New York (2011),[186] Oklahoma (2014), and Arizona (2016), and the measure has been unanimously approved by Republican-led committees in Georgia and Missouri, prior to the 2016 election.[187]

On March 15, 2019, Colorado became the most "purple" state to join the compact, though no Republican legislators supported the bill and Colorado had a state government trifecta under Democrats.[188] It was later submitted to a referendum, approved by 52% of voters.

Of course, we have to be prepared for the legal challenges that will inevitably follow activation of the Compact. Various organizations are on that, too.

x When I see politicians pushing for laws to make it harder to #vote, I have to wonder what theyโ€™re afraid of. #TruthBrigade pic.twitter.com/j1CUGQsXYf โ€” #ERANow ๐Ÿ•Š โš›๐Ÿงท she/her (@GoddessOfPeace8) July 10, 2023

Wrong-Wingers make no secret of whom they fear, rage against, and hate most: Those People, for a very large value of Those. And they hate us most of all when we vote. And they will hate us even more when our vote is what counts, not the Electoral College.

Whatever they scream about loudest, do more of.

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