{"id":74,"date":"2024-06-07T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/?post_type=issue&#038;p=74"},"modified":"2024-06-07T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T22:54:16","slug":"national-popular-vote-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"issue","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/florida\/issues\/national-popular-vote-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"National Popular Vote &#038; Electoral College"},"template":"","class_list":["post-74","issue","type-issue","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"short_title":"Fix The Broken Electoral College","summary":"We deserve presidential elections where every voter has an equal voice and where the winning candidate must engage with all 50 states. Common Cause is pushing to fix the broken Electoral College.","helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"In several recent presidential races, the candidate who won the popular vote lost the election. And in every presidential election, candidates are forced to focus their attention on only a handful of swing states, essentially ignoring voters everywhere else. The winner-take-all Electoral College system that produces this anti-democratic process must be changed, so that voters in all 50 states have a say in choosing our president.\r\n\r\nHere is how our National Popular Vote &amp; the Electoral College campaign will fix this: the Constitution allows states to decide how they award their electoral votes, so if enough require their votes to go to the winner of the nationwide popular vote, we could fix the Electoral College's problems without needing to amend the Constitution. This National Popular Vote Compact will not take effect until states with 270 electors\u2014a majority\u2014joined in. But we are closer to that than you might think: 16 states and the District of Columbia have already signed on, providing 205 electoral votes of the needed 270."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_what_were_doing","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_what_were_doing":{"title":"","featured_work":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_take_action","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_take_action":{"heading":"","button_text":"","manually_curate":false,"action":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_banner","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_banner":{"use_donate_banner":true,"title":"Title [highlight]with highlighting[\/highlight] and additional text.","button":null,"image":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_events","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_events":{"heading":"Events"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_related_articles","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_related_articles":{"heading":"Updates","button_text":"See all Related Articles","manually_curate":false,"articles":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_resources","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_resources":{"heading":"Related Resources","button_text":"See all Related Resources","manually_curate":false,"resource":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_press","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_press":{"heading":"","button_text":"","manually_curate":false,"press":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_our_experts","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_our_experts":{"heading":"","manually_curate":false,"people":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Popular Vote &amp; 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