Students for National Popular Vote

other words, the bill would ensure that the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes would win the office, just like the other elections in our country. Five of our 45 presidents have been elected despite getting less votes than their opponent. The current system of choosing a president effectively narrows the entire presidential election to a contest in a relatively small number of “battleground” states, because of this people in the rest of the country have a sense that their votes for President don’t matter. This is especially true for the millions of younger voters scattered around the country, who are routinely ignored in favor of the interests of voters on the margins in a handful of battleground states. National Popular Vote would amplify the voices of students and young voters by combining their votes into a large bloc, rather than relatively small pockets under the current state-based winner-take-all method.