Today California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 459, making it the 8th state to join that National Popular Vote compact. With his signature the effort to reform our absurd system for electing the president takes a huge step towards becoming reality. The national popular vote compact is an arrangement between the states to [...]

Thursday the California State Legislature passed the National Popular Vote bill and sent it to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature. From the San Francisco Chronicle: The California Legislature passed legislation Thursday that if signed by Gov. Jerry Brown would significantly boost the growing national movement to elect the president of the United States by popular [...]

Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin is set to sign on Friday a law making Vermont the seventh state to join the National Popular Vote compact. Although most states give their electoral college votes to the presidential candidate that wins the most votes in the state, they are technically free to assign those votes based on whatever [...]

Today, billionaire businessman Tom Golisano announced his role as the national spokesperson for the National Popular Vote campaign. Golisano made his money founding Paychex, the second-largest payroll processor in the country. The National Popular Vote campaign is an indirect attempt (without a Constitutional amendment) to end the US system of selecting the president through the [...]

Currently, 74 percent of Americans think the arcane Electoral College we use to elect our President should be abolished. That’s the finding of a poll by Penn Schoen Berland about what Americans think of the Constitution. From Mark Penn: When it comes to fixing the system, voters zero in on the judiciary branch as most [...]