Democratic Senators Brian Schatz, Dick Durbin, and Peter Welch have introduced a bill to abolish the Electoral College and decide US presidential elections by popular vote.
What's New #VoteNo is trending on social media as a group of Democratic leaders are pushing to abolish the Electoral College . Democratic Senators Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Dick Durbin of Illinois, and Peter Welch of Vermont introduced an amendment to abolish the Electoral College system on Monday. The bill would allow U.S. presidential elections to be decided through popular vote alone. When reached for comment, Schatz and Durbin's offices emailed Newsweek a statement about the bill.
'In an election, the person who gets the most votes should win. It's that simple,' Schatz said in the statement. 'No one's vote should count for more based on where they live. The Electoral College is outdated and it's undemocratic. It's time to end it.' Newsweek also reached out to Welch via email for comment. The winner received the most votes in all but five presidential elections. Two of the five times that this has taken place has been in the last 19 years, once with former President George W. Bush in 2000 and again with President-elect Donald Trump in 2016. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had also called for abolishing the Electoral College after she won the popular vote but lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election. With most states being easily predictable on whether they will go blue or red, a handful of states are determining the leader for the overall country. The proposal said, '17 states and the District of Columbia have joined a national plan to bypass the Electoral College by agreeing to allocate its electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the national popular vote.' The amendment proposal is also supported by the NAACP and Common Cause, according to Schatz and Durbin. The bill introduced to the Senate on December 12 is meant to 'restore democracy,' according to Schat
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