Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy calls for abolishing electoral college

U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy is calling for abolishing the electoral college. A list of reasons and petition can be found on his website:

“The Electoral College has, throughout our history, been an anti-democratic tool of injustice:

– It was created to boost the power of slave states and to protect the ruling class from the will of the people.
– It results in some Americans’ votes counting more than three times as other Americans.
– Presidential candidates take massive swaths of our country for granted, while battling over a handful of so-called “swing states.”
– In two of the last 5 presidential elections, the candidate who lost the popular vote ended up winning the presidency.
– The Electoral College has tragically mangled the core promise of democracy in the United States: one person, one vote.

It’s time to elect our president with a National Popular Vote.”

To abolish the electoral college and elect U.S Presidents with a popular vote, an amendment to the U.S. consititution would have to be made. That would require Congress to approve the amendment with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. Then the proposed amendment would have to be ratified by three-fourths of the States (38 of 50 States).

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