National Voter Corps
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The Constitution allotted Electoral College votes to each State based on the number of representatives each has in the House plus their two Senators. That formula hasn’t changed since 1789, but many processes have.
Hint: Food, Friends & Saturday off. At a recent college reunion, one of the attendees described visiting her son and grandchildren in Australia at the time an election was held. As election day approached, her family enthusiastically called friends to meet at a polling place which offered their favorite foods. What!? Choose your own polling place? Food? To paraphrase Dorothy, “I guess I’m not in Georgia anymore.”
The Brennan Center argues in The Myth of Voter Fraud and 7 Facts about Voter Fraud and Myths being spread about them that individual voter fraud is insignificant and “Voter fraud is unacceptable, but we must find solutions that address actual problems instead of imposing policies that make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to participate in our democracy.”
Why a New System? Our current system encourages candidates to appeal to the largest block of voters in their own party during the primary election. Then candidates usually (not always!) moderate their messaging to gain enough votes from independents and members of the opposing party to win the general election. The results often are not pretty, especially if a third-party “spoiler” candidate takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election in favor of the leading rival. The difficulty for minority and third-party candidates (actually any candidate not extremely well-funded) to get serious attention also adds to the search for a fairer way to conduct elections. Among the alternatives we’ll look at here are the leader,
Does reading your ballot feel like taking a multiple-choice test? So many candidates and complicated propositions with misleading names! Do you study the all details, vote simply by party, or just wing it? There is an easier way…Endorsements, Donations and Snopes!
94 restrictive voting laws passed in 29 states since 2013 Shelby County decision – and more to come Source: : States Have Added Nearly 100 Restrictive Laws Since SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act 10 Years Ago Brennan Center, June 23, 2023 Voting Battle Resumes in HouseCall to Action! WHO? You tell your Representative in Congress WHAT? To SUPPORT the Freedom to Vote Act (FTV) and OPPOSE the American Confidences in Elections Act (ACE) WHERE? House of Representatives. Phone 202-224-3121 or email at Find Your Representative
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